Screenprint on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
Soup Can Series I
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/andy-warhol-2121" aria-label="More by Andy Warhol" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Andy Warhol</a>
Black Bean
Purchased 1978
food and drink
objects
product packaging
reading, writing, printed matter
soup
tin can
vessels and containers
<p>Warhol painted familiar consumer items such as coca-cola bottles or soup cans throughout the 1960s, the earliest examples first shown in New York in 1962. Asked why he painted soup cans, Warhol replied, 'Because I used to drink it. I used to have the same lunch every day.' Using screenprinting, Warhol could simulate the mechanical effect of his source to the extent that the resulting image appears almost untransformed. Yet, the rich colour, enlargement of scale and unifying black outline are reminders that these are commercial techniques being used in the context of high art, no longer selling products, but presenting them as objects for contemplation. As such, they pose radical questions about the value of art and the way it is consumed.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper print screenprint
14 April 2009 – 16 June 2013
2013-06-16
14 April 2009 – 16 June 2013
2013-06-16
2009-04-14
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2009-04-14
This is Sculpture
Collection based display
17 November 2018 – 2 June 2019
2019-06-02
17 November 2018 – 2 June 2019
2019-06-02
2018-11-17
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 2 (Edinburgh, UK)
2018-11-17
'I Want to be a Machine': Warhol and Paolozzi
Loan-out
25 September 2021 – 29 January 2022
2022-01-29
25 September 2021 – 29 January 2022
2022-01-29
2021-09-25
Hatton Gallery (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
2021-09-25
Print Goes Pop: Warhol to Paolozzi
Loan-out
19 February 2024 – 11 May 2024
2024-05-11
19 February 2024 – 11 May 2024
2024-05-11
2024-02-19
Art Explora (Liverpool, UK)
2024-02-19
Mobile Museum 2024
Loan-out
Black Bean
support: 892 × 591 mm
frame: 900 × 596 × 35 mm
Purchased 1978
<p>Warhol painted familiar consumer items such as  coca-cola bottles or soup cans throughout the  1960s, the earliest examples first shown in New  York in 1962. Asked why he painted soup cans,  Warhol replied, 'Because I used to drink it. I  used to have the same lunch every day.' Using  <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/screenprint" title="Glossary definition for 'Screenprint'"><span>screenprinting</span></a>, Warhol could simulate the  mechanical effect of his source to the extent that  the resulting image appears almost untransformed.  Yet, the rich colour, enlargement of scale and  unifying black outline are reminders that these  are commercial techniques being used in the  context of high art, no longer selling products,  but presenting them as objects for contemplation.  As such, they pose radical questions about the  value of art and the way it is consumed.</p>
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2004-08-18T00:00:00
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food and drink objects product packaging reading, writing, printed matter soup tin can vessels and containers