Ariel's Art Blog

Campbell's Soup Cans by Andy Warhol Campbell's Soup Cans was made by Andy Warhol between 1961-1962 in Andy Warhol's studio in Manhattan. Andy Warhol inspired awe with these paintings as he created 32 paintings of different Campbell soups, all on separate canvases. Andy Warhol hired someone to take various pictures of the soup cans as he then projected the photos onto the canvas, drew the edges, and filled in the outlines with paint. These paintings are an example of pop art which was popular in the mid modern art era. Warhol was considered to be the beginning of pop art which was a movement that brought working-class American subjects into fine art. The elements are shown in this painting through repetition, flat color, and uniformity. The repeated image of the Campbell's soup can in multiple canvases emphasize the idea of mass production and consumerism. Each can is nearly identical, creating a sense of consistency and lack of artistic individuality. Warhol uses bold

 Gas by Edward Hopper  Gas by Edward Hopper was painted in Truro, Massachusetts 1940. Hopper used composition, light, shadow, and color palette to inspire awe in his painting. The colors such as red, green, and white draws viewer's attention to certain objects. For example, the trees in the background are painted dark greens to make the gas pumps pop out using bright red.  The bright light coming from the building and the gas pumps along with the shadows in the surrounding area creates a dramatic tension and highlights the figure at the gas pump. The placement of the building in the left of the composition and the lone figure at the gas pump, emphasizes the sense of isolation. The emotions shown in Gas are ambiguity, desperation, and loneliness. The empty gas station, with the lone figure suggests he's desperate and anticipates a customer to appear, who may never arrive. The empty landscape, almost abandoned space, and the lack of other people in the painting creates an emot