Pop Art

The lines and shapes are either straight to make the container of the cans or curvy lines to make the lid of the cans of tomato soup. The shapes been used in his masterpieces are cylinder and circles. The colours and tones are plain, fresh and simple used of colours. However, Andy Warhol used no tones as it may not look "pop art". I can see textures and patterns that are simple and common as it used basic shapes and few patterns like a can of tomato soup.

The materials that have been used are black painting and coloured papers. I can tell this because if you look closely in the image, I can see neat edges and the quality of the black outline in the cans. I also think that Andy Warhol used coloured paper instead of coloured paintings is because when I looked closely at the artwork, I can see the texture of coloured paper used inside the cans. The techniques for these materials is

The artist produced this work because he once said "Anyone can do what I do", a statement that is self-evidently false and, in the wide-open cultural world he did so much to create, absolutely true. The theme or meaning of the work is you can do anything you want in art to express how you feel- like elegant to fantastic, unique and weird. I think the artist was feeling expressive when he produced the work because you can clearly see how he is proud of modern culture like using technology to inspire people. I think the work is personal because when he made the artwork he used his feelings to create his masterpiece and as I said before he made a statement before to encourage others.

Before I started looking closely at this picture, I thought it's weird as it uses colours that have never been used in a can of tomato soup. Also I thought, "Why would you use a can of tomato soup in an artwork?" Let's face it, I first I don't find tins really interesting in art. Now I have looked more closely, I think I find it interesting because I like the way of using colours in cans, it's unique and quite artistic. Looking at this artist has shown me that I could even make my own piece of artwork using ordinary things to make it interesting as Andy's masterpiece.

The similarities between the two pictures are the technique used in the artworks because if you look closely, the way the artwork was piece are exactly the same method. The differences between the two pictures are the "Campbell's soup can" have four different coloured images while the "Marilyn Monroe" has nine different coloured images. The picture I find the most interesting is the "Campbell's soup can" because the statement he made with the artwork made me realise that any is possible with art- you don't have to be great at drawing to be artistic.