Interviewer: What was the interest to you then in that Campbell’s soup tin? What gave you the idea of doing that?
Artist, Andy Warhol: Oh, well, I used to eat it every day. I still do, so.
Learning Specialist, Carolina Malagamba: That was the artist who made this work. It is made up of 32 separate paintings, all shown together.
Curator, Ann Temkin: And in fact, at the point at which Andy Warhol made these, these were the 32 kinds of Campbell’s soup that you could find on the shelf in the supermarket.
Carolina Malagamba: I recognize the brand. This is a soup that we can still buy today, and it still looks the same. I want you to take some time to see all the different pieces that make up this artwork, and also notice the different elements inside of each single painting. How they're very similar to each other, but also how they differ from one another.
Ann Temkin: Warhol became interested in thinking about painting in terms of repetition rather than in terms of uniqueness. So for this, he would project a drawing of the soup can onto the canvas in order to make sure that each one was done exactly alike.
Carolina Malagamba: He sketched them out in pencil and then he colored them in, and there is this little pattern that rings the bottom of each can that he hand-stamped on the painting. By using this stamp he's mimicking the repetition and the uniformity of mass production, mass advertising that becomes a part of everyday life.
Andy Warhol created this piece because he says he ate soup every day for lunch. I’d like you to think about something that you consume every day, and I don’t only mean food. We consume television, we consume music, we consume fashion. So what is something that you engage with every single day in this massive amount?