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His first soup can paintings mimicked the standard red, black and white of the original Campbell's product.
That same year, Ferus gave Andy Warhol his first commercial gallery show, made up of Campbell's soup can paintings.
Marcel Duchamp loved the Campbell's soup can paintings because, he said, they freed art from the tyranny of the retinal image.
So can paintings with the primary-color stripes of the Hudson's Bay blanket, sold by the artist Jamie Boling under the name Jamie Douglas.
Warhol began the soup can paintings in 1961, reportedly at the suggestion of an art dealer, and they proliferated over the next few years.
His first solo exhibition, of 32 Campbell's soup can paintings, was presented in Los Angeles at the Ferus Gallery in 1962.
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Andy Warhol's Campbell's-soup-can paintings are all about art as commodity.
The point of Warhol's Campbell's soup-can paintings was not that a soup can is like a work of art.
Donald Barthelme moved to New York City in 1962, the year that Warhol first showed the soup-can paintings.
Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, and Jim Dine — all of whom came to Pop-art styles and subjects independently of one another — had shows before Warhol exhibited the soup-can paintings.
(Are you supposed to stare at the soup-can paintings, or are you just supposed to laugh? Which would be the wrong reaction?) Edward looked at his red beard in the tableknife.
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