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Warhol's
next series, depicting the mass-produced goods
of Campbell's Soup cans and Coke bottles, captured
the clean-edged look of commercially manufactured
objects and made him famous. He also turned
his art into mass produced objects. At the time
many critics were up in arms over the banal
subject matter. Abstract Expressionists were
also angry at losing their place in the art
market to a young upstart commercial artist.
Campbell's soup had a special significance to
Warhol because it was his favourite meal as
a child, his mother fed it to him every lunchtime.
Suddenly a bland object became art. Warhol's
images summed up the spirit of his society and
times- from Marilyn Monroe to Chairman Zedong.
The silk-screened image became a format Warhol
used for many years. He became well-known in
the early sixties for his many 'Marilyn' silk-screens,
of Marilyn Monroe, and for his use of the Campbell's
soup cans. Warhol mocked art with his 'Do-It-Yourself'
series of 1962 where he left the picture half
coloured to be finished by colouring by numbers.
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