"Regarding Warhol: 60 Artists, 50 Years" - Exploring Andy Warhol's Influence on Contemporary Art

A new exhibition called "Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years" recently opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibit shows the enormity of Andy Warhol's influence on contemporary art. Forty-five works by Warhol are juxtaposed with one hundred works by some sixty other artists. The exhibition depicts how the other artists responded to Warhol's pioneering work. The exhibit runs through the end of 2012.

Limited Edition Campbell's Soup Cans Inspired by Andy Warhol's Art

Campbell's has released a series of limited-edition soup cans inspired by Andy Warhol's artwork. This year marks the 50th anniversary of pop artist Andy Warhol's 1962 iconic artwork, "32 Campbell's Soup Cans." The four different color-schemed cans are being sold at Target to commemorate 50 years of the art of soup. The cans feature Warhol's portrait, his autograph and quotes including "In the future, everybody will be world-famous for 15 minutes," "The world fascinates me," "Pop Art is for everyone," "But I always say one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party." The Warhol cans are being released in conjunction with a new line of Campbell's Soup such as Moroccan Style Chicken with Chickpeas and Creamy Red Pepper with Smoked Gouda.

The original Warhol 1962 piece, "32 Campbell's Soup Cans," is composed of thirty-two 20" x 16" canvases each screen printed in red and white with one flavor of each soup offered at the time the artwork was created.

In Manhattan, Target is located at 517 East 117th Street in East Harlem.

POP Burger

POP Burger is a trendy burger joint created by designer Ali Tayar in Manhattan. It attracts local s for quick stops during the day. One of its branches is located at 14 East 58th Street. The restaurant's front is casually cool with an installation of illuminated words and phrases from the menu. The seat-yourself dining area in the back is a casually cool setting of steel tables and Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup art on the wall.

Campbell's Soup Cans by Andy Warhol

On exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art is a group of paintings called CAMPBELL'S SOUP CANS (or 32 CAMPBELL'S SOUP CANS) by Andy Warhol (1962, synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two canvases, each canvas 20 x 16" (50.8 x 40.6 cm).

When Warhol first exhibited these thirty–two canvases in 1962, each one simultaneously hung from the wall like a painting and rested on a shelf like groceries in a store. The number of canvases corresponds to the varieties of soup then sold by the Campbell Soup Company. Warhol assigned a different flavor to each painting, referring to a product list supplied by Campbell's. There is no evidence that Warhol envisioned the canvases in a particular sequence. Here, they are arranged in rows that reflect the chronological order in which they were introduced, beginning with "Tomato" in the upper left, which debuted in 1897 (from MOMA website).

Andy Warhol's DOUBLE ELVIS

This artwork is called "Double Elvis", 1963, silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas by Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987). It's on display at the Museum of Modern Art.

BMW Art Cars by Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg

Andy Warhol

Roy Lichtenstein

Robert Rauschenberg

Frank Stella

The second BMW public art installation at Grand Central's Vanderbilt Hall is a collection of four iconic BMW Art Cars designed by Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg. The BMW Art Car project was founded in 1975. Sixteen of the world’s most respected artists, including the four whose works are on exhibit, have designed BMW Art Cars. The cars have been exhibited by museums and galleries throughout the world, including the Louvre in Paris and the Palazzo Grassi in Venice. 

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in Wax

I made these images of ANDY WARHOL, JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS and MARILYN MONROE in wax at MADAME TUSSAUDS Wax Museum in Times Square. Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, filmmaker and conceptual artist, who was a leading figure in the movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and public figure known for his membership in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats.

Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. Warhol created the concept of "15 minutes of fame", which refers to the fleeting condition of fame in the modern world, mainly attributed to mass media and transience in human beings. (From wikipedia).

Two of his famous paintings are those of actress MARILYN MONROE, and former First Lady JACQUELINE KENNEDY.

ANDY WARHOL's 32 CAMPBELL SOUP CANS

I snapped this image of ANDY WARHOL's 32 CAMPBELL SOUP CANS when I visited the Museum of Modern Art recently.

From about.com:

Andy Warhol Campbell's Soup Cans. Acrylic on canvas. 32 paintings each 20x16" (50.8x40.6cm). In the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

Warhol first exhibited his series of Campbell's soup can paintings in 1962, with the bottom of each painting resting on a shelf like a can would in a supermarket. There are 32 paintings in the series, the number of varieties of soup sold at the time by Campbell's.

If you'd imagined Warhold stocking his pantry with cans of soup, then eating a can as he'd finished a painting, well it seems not. According to Moma's website, Warhold used a product list from Campbell's to assign a different flavor to each painting.

Warhol also apparently didn't have an order he wanted the paintings displayed in. Moma displays the paintings "in rows that reflect the chronological order in which [the soups] were introduced, beginning with 'Tomato' in the upper left, which debuted in 1897." So if you paint a series and want them displayed in a particular order, make sure you make a note of this somewhere. The back edge of the canvases is probably the best as then it'll not get separated from the painting (though it may get hidden if the paintings are framed).