Campbell's Soup Cans

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/campbells-soup-cans

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the artwork series title?Campbell's Soup Cans
2. What is the artist?Andy Warhol
3. What are Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans?They are 32 paintings made between 1961 and 1962 that show a Campbell's soup can. Each canvas is 20 inches tall and 16 inches wide, painted by hand from the printed image.
4. Why did Warhol paint soup cans?He wanted to show that everyday objects could be art and to make people think about what is considered beautiful. By painting a common soup can, he challenged the idea that only fancy subjects belong in museums.

Pop Art: An art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and the late 1950s in the United States, characterized by its appropriation of imagery from popular culture and mass media.
Commercial Illustration: The creation of visual content for advertising, marketing, and other commercial applications, often involving a direct relationship with clients and deadlines.
Readymade: An art object created by the artist from found objects, which are often mass-produced items presented as art, famously pioneered by Marcel Duchamp.
Consumerism: A social and economic order and theory that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.