Andy Warhol, the prince of popart, first exhibited the Campbell’s Soup can paintings in the year of 1962. These were thirty-two canvases that that rested on a shelf created as a parody of the soup cans that were on the shelves of grocery stores all across the United States. These thirty-two acrylic paintings seemed to be a literal translation of the number of varieties of soup that was being sold by the Campell’s Soup company. This is how these soup cans changed the face of popart.

These pop art paintings were created and chronological order. The tomato flavor was introduced in 1897 and was placed at the upper left hand corner. The prince of popart claimed that he ate Campbell’s soup every day for lunch for over tweny years. Like other artists of his time, Andy Warhol took images that had mass appeal, such as those images of movie stars, rock idols and comics and used them in his art. He created many parodies of the large mass consumerism of the United States during the sixties.

He also used advertising style silk screen and graphics. Throughout his career, Warhol was repeatedly attached as being fake and shady. Despite this, he did strike a chord with the art world and the mass public. He became a very popular cult idol in the world of American art.

Acrylics were extensively used by this pop artist. Acryclics were first created and used as a solvent based medium. Today most artists use the water based acrylics, and these were launched in 1955. They are also known as “liquid texture”.

Acrylic paint was also used as common house paint. It was very popular, because it was very easy to cleanup with warm water and soap. The acrylic paintings of Warhol started to gain large financial success and respectability after the 1950’s.

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