Featuring four of the most recognized and iconic works from Andy Warhol's extensive collection. These decks have a timeless appeal for skateboarding or as collectible artwork. Natural top veneers accentuate the loose screen print effect top graphics which coordinate with the bold bottom graphics.
Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans are among the most recognizable and celebrated works in the history of art. Warhol began his Campbell’s Soup Can paintings around 1961, and the subject would take various forms in the years to follow. The Ferus type of Campbell’s Soup can paintings, which take their name from the thirty-two paintings of individual cans exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, are the largest and best known of Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup paintings. For these paintings, Warhol painted the well-known red and white cans, referring to the product list supplied by the Campbell Soup Company and checking off each type of soup as it was completed. A later series of Campbell’s Soup cans, produced around 1965, is comprised of nineteen different colored cans. For these works, Warhol not only used ink colors that departed from real colors, but also spray painted the backgrounds and the lower (white) portion of the label in different colors. The result was a collection that was both unexpected and familiar. Through these ground breaking works, Warhol challenged our way of thinking about art.
Warhol said about Campbell’s soup, “I used to drink [Campbell’s Soup]. I used to have the same lunch every day, for twenty years, I guess, the same thing over and over again. Someone said my life has dominated me; I like the idea. I used to want to live at the Waldorf Towers and have soup and a sandwich, like that scene in the restaurant in Naked Lunch.”
