Arts & Culture
How Andy Warhol's Soup Cans Seriality Critiques Consumer Culture
Quick fact
When Warhol first exhibited his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans in 1962, he lined them up on shelves like products in a grocery store—each painting corresponding to a different flavor that Campbell's actually sold at the time.
Why this is interesting
You've probably seen a Campbell's Soup can—but what happens when you see thirty-two of them, exactly the same, hanging in a museum? Warhol's soup cans might look like a simple trick, yet they quietly flip the mirror back on our own buying habits.