Campbell soup essay

This paper focuses on such works as Scull and Campbell’s Soup Cans, created by Basquiat and Warhol respectively. Campbell’s Soup Cans is a collection of cans that depict the various soup flavors offered by a food producing company of that time.

Both the two works seek to promote an element of identity. In the Scull, Basquiat seeks to promote the notion of black identity and the struggles they were passing through. The Scull is a shambled face of an individual, and the picture contains some elements of graffiti. Graffiti is symbolically attributed to African-Americans.

Commercialization of art is another important aspect that the painting depicts. The words “The Campbell’s Soup” in red indicate that the product named is being promoted. This is an example of an advertisement, which relies on art to convey its message to the target market (Warhol and Joseph 51).

The Campbell’s Soup Cans was based on a popular culture, which is pop art. It was one of Andy Warhol favorite works and it shows his signature. He got his idea during the spring in the year of 1962. He asked a friend to find subjects to paint and he realized that everybody like Campbell’s soup.