Rambuchan
The Funky President
The Can of Soup is a send up of Andy Warhol's famous Campbells Soup Can. These silk screen works, which Warhol mostly got assistants to do, could be mass produced by anyone, indicating that he was commenting on mass consumer culture and the use of stereotypes in factories*. The Campbell's soup can was also a message about Democratising the Art World (instead of it being dominated by stuffy, elitist and unapproachable Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning).PrinceOfLeigh said:Excellent posting on this thread, the only one I don't understand it the Tomato Soup picture which looks to me like a picture of Tomato Soup. Can anyone enlighten me as to the underlying message as it is too underlying for me to see!
But the Soup can in the image above is from a British Supermarket's budget range. Tesco is by far the largest supermarket in the UK by quite a long stretch. This is their cheapest Tomato Soup you can buy and is full of shi*e. I guess the message is that this Democratising and mass producing process has really brought us to a very low standard - lowest common denominator stuff. That's my reading of it anyway. I'd be interested to hear others.
Also interesting is that quite a few pages back another cartoonist has used the same Warhol soup can to comment on Bush's attempt to 'mass produce' democracy to the world. I'd go and find it but I work my ass off enough for this thread as it is .
* The word stereotype actually comes from the early days of Industry. A stereotype being the mould by which many copies of something is made.