The following assessments can be used for this lesson using the downloadable assessment rubric.
- Communication 2
- Creative process 2
- Creative process 3
- Creative process 6
- Critical thinking 2
- Critical thinking 3
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35 x 23 1/8 in. (88.9 x 58.7 cm.)
Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup I: Chicken Noodle, 1968
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
1998.1.2393.2
Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Can paintings are key works of the 1960s pop art movement, a moment when many artists made work derived from popular culture. Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans elevate the popular or everyday to the status of art. The Campbell’s brand and its red-and-white label date from the late nineteenth century and became increasingly familiar in the twentieth century, particularly with the increase in mass production and advertising after World War II. Warhol himself said, “Pop art is about liking things,” and claimed that he ate Campbell’s soup every day for twenty years. For him, it was the quintessential American product: he marveled that the soup, like Coca-Cola, always tasted the same, whether consumed by prince or pauper.
I used to drink it [Campbell’s Soup]. I used to have the same lunch every day, for twenty years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.
Students present their odes to the class and discuss the similarities and differences between the foods the class liked and disliked. First in their journals, then in a class discussion, students reflect on the following questions:
The following assessments can be used for this lesson using the downloadable assessment rubric.