Tomato Soup from Campbell’s Soup I, 1968, 1968

Andy Warhol’s Tomato Soup, 1968, belongs to the landmark portfolio Campbell’s Soup I, comprising ten screenprints devoted to different varieties of the familiar American product. By isolating the can and reproducing its commercial design with crisp, mechanical precision, Warhol transformed an ordinary supermarket object into an enduring icon of Pop Art. At once familiar and strangely monumental, the image reflects his fascination with consumer culture, mass production and the visual language of postwar America.