Art Experience

My first impression of Andy Warhol’s painting of the Campbell’s Soup II was that it was a typical can of soup with New England flavored clam chowder mixed in it. The first thought that went through my head was “are you serious? Do people really consider this art?” I was not impressed at all. I do not think of this as a piece of art. My reason for believing this is that honestly to me this is just a drawing or screen print of a can of Campbell’s New England clam chowder flavored soup. Personally, if someone shows enough talent to draw a can of soup just like this display they should get paid too because they are basically doing the same thing. This was my first assumption of exactly how I felt when I first took a close look at this painting. After closely evaluating and researching Andy Warhol I noticed that he has some very valuable art displays. I also found out that his New England clam chowder soup editions are limited to only 250 prints. He is a very well known artist as I came to find out as I asked some of my tutors and learning specialists. One of his most well known quotes are “What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola; Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.” My response to this is he is absolutely right. Everyone that drinks coke is drinking the exact same thing no matter if you are rich or poor, tall or short, fat or skinny. I have now been informed that this artist is one of the most famous and productive artist of our time, possibly in history. Personally, this is not my preference of art work, but being that there are only 250 editions of this particular print it makes them more expensive.