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Get hand-picked stories from our editors delivered straight to your inbox every day.<\/p>' Installation view of Andy Warhol: Campbells Soup Cans and Other Works, 19531967 at The Museum of Modern Art, April 25October 12, 2015. validate: function( $form, $email ){ I took them very seriously, Blum says, and I took Andy seriously. But it all made for easy parody. With only nine days left in the show, I decided to toot its horn in todays expanded Daily Pic. Campbells had threatened copyright-infringement litigation following the Ferus show. var ctx = this; In 1967, the advertising visionary George Lois, a friend of Warhols going back to the 50s, booked him for a Braniff Airways commercial. // Signup validation I have to admit I read that and I was like, Go mom, laughs Clea Newman Soderlund, speaking about her fathers posthumous memoir, What Really Happened During the Making of. The Campbells Soup Cans canvases are among Warhols earliest paintings based on American consumer goods, and some of his first works that feature serial images. It was a big-bang moment for Pop and for everything that came after. }); $('body').on( 'click', '.close-signup', function(){ Then he. Most people, however, treated them with indifference or outright disdain. if (generalSettings.loadFontAwesome) { Focusing on artists primarily from New York and Los Angeles, Ferus mounted a number of significant exhibitions in the 1960s, including the 1962 Soup Cans exhibition, which was Warhols first solo exhibition of paintings and is also considered the first Pop art exhibition on the west coast. The paintings are less about repetition and uniformity than about uniqueness and difference. } 20) Out of the mouths of babes comes a good art review. Theres another take. The press went nuts. })(); You are currently logged into this Artnet News Pro account on another device. + '<\/div>'; But before the show was over, he changed his mindhe felt they should remain in a group. Instead, the letters in Warhols paintings are very cleared traced and not very well from someone elses work. (Or two full seconds at the slow-mo speeds Warhol preferred.). He is the Henry and Lois Foster Chair in Contemporary Art, Distinguished Curator-in-Residence, at Emerson College, Boston. Copyright 2016 The Museum of Modern Art, To take full advantage of all of the features on MoMA.org, please upgrade your browser to, an initiative spearheaded by Kirk Varnedoe, Andy Warhol: Campbell's Soup Cans and Other Works 19531967, Hurricane Sandy Aftermath - Tips for Artists. Because getting the medals just right would take too much work and might never look good, anyway? pagetypeforce = pagetypeurl.substr(pagetypeurl.length - 3); } $('body').append(ouibounceScript); return ctx.regex.email.test( $email.val() ); Posted by + '<\/style>' The 32 cans could now be considered a single work, the first example of the seriality and repetition for which Warhol is best known. As at Ferus, all 32 are standing at MoMA on a long shelf about three inches wide, which is almost always billed as evoking supermarket display. In 2002 it sold for $1.2 million.) + '<\/div>' + '