Andy Warhol. Artist?
Picture of a can of soup? Why not just use a camera? Wait a second, why do you need a picture of a soup can in the first place?
THIS just looks photoshopped:
I mean… IM JUST SAYING! Where’s the art? Where’s the value?
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yes it’s art
you’re just saying…what?
and as far as the other questions where’s the art? you won’t find it out of context.
but where is the ‘artistry’? the process? in supply and demand terms the ‘value,’ because it can only be done once or a few times: those prints weren’t photoshopped. andy warhol didn’t have a computer.
why do you need a ‘picture’ of campbells soup can?
read a book
my opinion: it needed to be bought by ‘high art’ collectors at an extremely high price in order to complete the absurd gesture that was meant to be the opposite of and the same thing as the absurdity he was responding to: american consumerism.
why isn’t the “value” of this object easily defined? because andy warhol rendered transparent the former (more) straightforward, predictable value system placed on art objects AND pop objects up to that point.
YOUR ABILITY TO ASK THE QUESTION “IS THIS ART? WHY DOES THIS NEED TO EXIST?” YOU OWE TO HIM.
he started the conversation, and he knew art history. please don’t end it with ignorance
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Yes i believe this is art, he took popular culture from his time and made it into art and campbells soup became popular around the beginning of the great depression, he saw it was in many peoples every day lives so he painted it.
At first i saw it like you i thought “how is this art” but now i think he was a genius in his thought and simplicity.