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*Andy Warhol*
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Andy Warhol from Soup Can Series I, Black Bean 1968
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/from/ Soup Can Series I (P07242; incomplete)

Black Bean  1968

Screenprint on paper
support: 892 x 591 mm frame: 900 x 596 x 35 mm
on paper, print

Purchased 1978

P07242
Warhol painted familiar consumer items such as coca-cola bottles or soup
cans throughout the 1960s, the earliest examples first shown in New York
in 1962. Asked why he painted soup cans, Warhol replied, 'Because I used
to drink it. I used to have the same lunch every day.' Using
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Warhol could simulate the mechanical effect of his source to the extent
that the resulting image appears almost untransformed. Yet, the rich
colour, enlargement of scale and unifying black outline are reminders
that these are commercial techniques being used in the context of high
art, no longer selling products, but presenting them as objects for
contemplation. As such, they pose radical questions about the value of
art and the way it is consumed.
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