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Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid-to-late 1950s. The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from
Eduardo Paolozzi, I was a Rich Man's Plaything (1947). Part of his Bunk! series, this is considered the initial bearer of "pop art" and the first to show the word "pop".
Charles Demuth, I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold 1928, collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Richard Hamilton's collage Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? (1956) is one of the earliest works to be considered "pop art".
Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans, 1962
Campbell's Soup Cans
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Campbell's Soup Cans is a series of 32 paintings produced by American artist Andy Warhol between 1961 and 1962. Each painting depicts a different variety of Campbell's soup cans in a uniform 20-by-16-
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…engagement with mass culture. In July 1962, Andy Warhol held his first solo exhibition at Irving Blum's Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, exhibiting 32 Campbell's Soup Cans. That same month, the exhibition American Painting and Sculpture from Connecticut Collections at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford included works by…
Warhol at the Jewish Museum in New York, 1980
Warhol's 1960–74 residence at 1342 Lexington Avenue in 2007, where he produced the original Campbell's Soup Cans series
723 La Cienega Boulevard, 1962 location of the Ferus Gallery in Beverly Grove, Los Angeles, 2023