With his artistic roots as a commercial illustrator for popular magazines and fashion companies, Andy Warhol became fascinated with popular consumerist culture and mechanical reproduction. Through this obsession, he founded the Pop Art movement. His original 1962 Campbell’s Soup Cans series consisted of 32 individual canvases, each of a different variety of Campbell’s soup, emphasizing how repetition and uniformity erodes meaning from an object. While his initial series was painted, towards the end of 1962 he turned to the commercial method of silk screen printing. This technique, used in Campbell’s Soup Can, Green Pea, further linked his work to the mechanical production of consumerism, blurring the lines between high art and popular culture.
