Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup

Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup

Similar to Andy Warhol famously appropriating familiar images from consumer culture and mass media, David O’Brien creates mosaic’s that are influenced by his own passions such as iconic music album covers, fine works of art, rare racing cars, retro posters and iconic buildings.

Towards the end of 1962, shortly after Andy Warhol completed Campbell’s Soup Cans, Warhol turned to the photo-silkscreen process. A printmaking technique originally invented for commercial use, it would become his signature medium and link his art making methods more closely to those of advertisements. “I don’t think art should be only for the select few,” he claimed, “I think it should be for the mass of the American people.”

Warhol said of Campbell’s soup, “I used to drink it. I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.”

Original Mosaic Artwork.