Andy Warhol famously said, "Art is what you can get away with." And couldn't the same be said of commerce?
2026-03-22 03:28:20
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👩🦼🏳️🌈🇦🇺🦁 Lili :
If Andy Warhol has no haters I am dead. 😩
2026-03-22 02:26:37
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Eric T. :
A couple of philosophers wrote The Rebel Sell in 2004. The thesis is basically that anything countercultural eventually becomes a part of consumer culture, because middle-class people are constantly battling for status by buying specific items.
2026-03-22 02:59:56
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njcaldwells :
I do think he found the commercialization mundane, but he was also deeply inspired by it. Even had an art studio called “the factory.”
2026-03-22 01:09:30
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Nomad :
I dislike Andy very much but I love art and this series and you for making it! 🥺🥰 k bye
2026-03-22 00:51:45
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Roberto Velasco II :
this is actually my arm (love your content, btw)
2026-03-22 01:20:24
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jason the ruler :
RIP Andy Warhol you would love Generative AI
2026-04-16 21:18:32
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Prism :
can you talk about balloon dog guy
2026-03-22 06:12:33
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SeasonProperly :
put another way, depiction does not equal endorsement
2026-03-22 11:30:15
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✨️Bex✨️ :
idk, I mean. his criticism was 'life is boring' and then his art got so popular that the specific part of life he was presenting as boring payed him to make it less boring. I know we as artists hate the capitalistic hell scape, for good reosen, and this isn't a fairy tale ending but could you not argue his art incited the change he wanted to see? the soup cans are no longer boring
2026-03-23 11:52:02
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bec_things :
I thought the repetitive screen prints were still to do with the consumerism commentary though. How easily it was replicated
2026-03-22 12:14:06
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Mario X :
Andy Warhol was the OG art influencer ...and i mean that in the worst way
2026-04-16 20:41:56
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Judsith 🦋 :
am I hallucinating
2026-03-24 03:16:55
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shehryars6 :
"capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead"
2026-03-22 03:29:06
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namtafeno :
I always thought the commercialisation was the point - doing the thing to art that capitalism did to everything else. pointing out that even art can be a commercial thing because it wasn't before that point. breaking the rules
2026-03-22 02:28:48
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soup :
indeed so many good memories
2026-03-22 13:05:40
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Ashley :
Art teacher here. I love your content and your perspective!
2026-03-22 00:54:49
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haricot :
Ambiguity always ends up helping the most powerful legal entity
2026-03-22 01:08:17
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x64_alan :
I mean, if he was bored by the monotony of the labels, and then got hired to make better labels... that seems like the right outcome. mild, but right
2026-03-22 17:41:50
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KP :
Andy Warhols critiques of consumerist society through irony and repetition will never not be inspirational to me
2026-04-03 20:40:56
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jp199068 :
I've seen his explanation and what the soup cans became. I've often wondered if it wasn't "factory made soup" but "boring looking factory made soup" that was his criticism. IE it's not a systemic criticism but an aesthetic one.
2026-03-22 14:24:12
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Ksenia Hawk 📚🐉✨ :
There’s a ginormous campbell’s soup artwork in the city where I live
2026-03-22 07:16:02
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Mylk :
I’m so happy I found the first video when part 2 just came out
2026-03-22 00:39:32
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pavrock :
I see a message about conformity. Tomato, minestrone, and french onion soups all have very different flavors and textures. But in order to make a salable product, the Campbell's company places them in the same can. No variety, all uniformity.
2026-03-23 16:03:50
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