100 Cans, Andy Warhol, Size: 6 ft X 4 ft 4 inches, Date: 1962, Museum: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.
100 Cans is a painting of oil on canvas that is viewed or cultured as “pop art”. Andy Warhol produced objects, materials, or images such as Coca-Cola bottles, Brillo boxes, even people such as Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, and Elvis Presley. A famous painting of Andy’s is this painting dealing with 100 cans of Campbell’s soup. He used a repeating pattern and rhythm in the way the cans all line up evenly across from one another as well as up and down. There are lines vertically and horizontally which place the cans of soup in order. The bright red labels and yellow dots on the cans of soup make each and every one stick out with emphasis. Andy used a unique style of painting, with the use of photographic silkscreen with gave the images a different look along with actually painting the picture. Art work such as this had to deal a lot with the media and presenting company’s or manufacturers products.
Andy Warhol enjoyed this type of art work and painting. Pop art was meant to be able to draw art closer to peoples life’s, and by the 1960’s, life was already converted from actual artwork to movies, books, images, famous people, so Andy’s art work helped with advertising and media.
“In their paintings of comic-strip of figures or soup cans, and in their repetitive images of movie stars, they recorded a frozen moment that did not have planted within it and implied movement forward or backward in time”
Title: American Painting: On space and time in the early 1960’s.
Author(s): Matthew Baigell
Source: Art Journal, Vol. 28, No. 4(1969), pp. 368-374+387+401.
