| Andy Warhol painted familiar consumer items such as | | | | Campbell's soup cans, Coca Cola bottles and dollar bills. |
| coca-cola bottles or soup cans throughout the 1960s, | | | | Working out of a studio called The Factory, Warhol's |
| the earliest examples first shown in New York in | | | | immediately recognizable objects recreated using silk |
| 1962. Asked why he painted soup cans, Warhol | | | | screen and paint. His most famous work, Andy |
| replied, 'we used to drink it. we used to have the | | | | Warhol's soup cans were an artistic triumph that |
| same lunch every day.' Using screenprinting, Warhol | | | | made him a world-renowned celebrity. This |
| could simulate the mechanical effect of his source to | | | | high-quality art print is expertly produced to capture |
| the extent that the resulting image appears almost | | | | the vivid color and exceptional detail of the original. |
| untransformed. Yet, the rich colour, enlargement of | | | | Very stylish Andy Warhol Design duvet with the |
| scale and unifying black outline are reminders that | | | | famous campbells soup pop art pic to the front thats |
| these are commercial techniques being used in the | | | | carried through to the pillow case. Each set contains |
| context of high art, no longer selling products, but | | | | one duvet & one pillow case. Art artist Andy Warhol |
| presenting them as objects for contemplation. As | | | | - Building on the results of the previous sessions this |
| such, they pose radical questions about the value of | | | | one will explore the mechanics at work in Warhol's |
| art and the way it is consumed. | | | | Pop Art works. At the same time we will look at |
| Andy Warhol, who referred to himself as a | | | | American advertising and advertising campaigns of |
| re-creator rather than a creator, became a Pop Art | | | | the 60s and discuss similarities and differences. |
| icon when he made his multi-hued silkscreened | | | | |