Chicken Noodle Soup by Andy Warhol in 1968

                In this painting, “Chicken Noodle Soup” from 1968, Andy Warhol, who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art; pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. Pop art started in London in the 1950's because this was after WW2 and artists began to change propaganda and make it more interesting by changing the colors and style. (Warhol) Andy Warhol proposed a question to society: “What is Art?”  His work was an attack on “high” art, and his ability to have his pieces shown in galleries was predicated on the claim that art is for anyone, and can be about everyday objects, like soup cans and coke bottles. (Potash)More than that, it can be based on mass production, taking away the detailed work that many artists prided themselves on. 
                In the Chicken Noodle Soup painting Warhol made thirty-two 20-inch x 16-inch canvases of Campbell’s Soup can portraits, each representing a variety of the Campbell’s Soup flavors available at the time. (Andy Warhol) The thirty-two canvases are very similar: each is a realistic depiction of the iconic, mostly red and white Campbell's Soup can silkscreened onto a white background. Warhol used hard lines and bold colors in his work, techniques used in advertising.. Most of the letterings are painted in red letters. Warhol used the Campbell's Soup cans in order to challenge the idea of painting as a medium of invention and originality. (Andy Warhol) Andy Warhol realized that outside of an art gallery, the Campbell's Soup label, unchanged in over fifty years, was not an attention-grabber but predictability. With this painting Warhol changed views of society and influenced pop art all around the world.  The point of his art was to make it accessible, and take it off its pedestal as an elite genre.(Potash)