¿Do you know who's behind this can?

Almost all we've seen this picture before... This design made a revolucionary change in art. It's difficult to understand why this peculiar design was so popular. In fact, the Campbell's design was part of a artwork called The 32 Campbell's Soup Cans. Well, this singular drawing is the beginner for the movement called Pop Art; which emerged by the latest 50s. But, what is this? It's a controversial movement 'cause it involves the "popular" or common things, in a colorful represantion of them. This kind of art doesn't represent the art in his totall but the attitudes that pop culture has.

One of the most popular artist in this movement was the american Andy Warhol (1928-1987), who made art so controversial for those times. He began as an advertisment illustrator. 

Furthermore, he was a writer, film director and helped the music group Velvet Underground to release some of their albumes; such as The Velvet Underground & Nico in 1967.

However, he was better at art than as a producer. An interesting fact is that Andy Warhol sold a canvas, similar to the one in the image, for 60.000 dollars! I mean, that's crazy. Despite of that expensive cost his art is well-known nowadays.

Here's some of his work:

Marilyn Monroe, american actress.

Mickey Mouse, cartoon from Walt Disney.

Mao Zedong, chinese communist revolutonary.

Cover album from The Velvet Underground.

"What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca-Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca-Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca-Cola, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it." - Andy Warhol.

 And finally a song from Velvet Underground:
Sweet Jane - Velvet Underground