Banksy | Soup Cans (Tesco Value)

Banksy (b. c.1974)
Soup Cans (Tesco Value)
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Banksy's Soup Cans (Tesco Value) is the most direct and formally elegant of his engagements with the Pop Art tradition — specifically with Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans, the 1962 series that announced the arrival of American Pop Art and which has since become one of the most reproduced and discussed works in the history of twentieth-century art. Where Warhol took a working-class American staple and elevated it to the gallery wall, Banksy substitutes Tesco Value soup — the supermarket own-brand, the cheapest available option, the food of genuine economic constraint — in a single substitution that says everything about the distance between the aspiration of American consumer culture and the reality of British working-class experience.

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