Three Campbell's Soup Cans
12" x 18"
This is the first painting I completed after the work for my show was done. Obviously inspired by Warhol. I've painted soup cans before but after working with the crumpled beer and coke cans, I wanted to see what would happen when the soup cans were also distressed and distorted and the labels peeled away.
Detail of: Three Campbell's Soup Cans
We went to the Warhol exhibit at the AGA yesterday and I was inspired all over again by his looser and more splashy areas. The first time I would have seen Warhol paintings in person was in 1982. I went to New York and visited MOMA. I was 20 years old and this was the first time I'd even been on a plane. Since then I've seen them in many places and have always been interested in his domestic subject matter and his treatment of objects and products. You wouldn't think that someone whose goal is to master a certain type of realism would be as attracted to Warhol as I have been, but he's always been there off to the side for me, even when I've mainly devoted myself to a study of baroque paintings and modern realism.
Detail of: Three Campbell's Soup Cans
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