We Need a Campbell's Soup Can Moratorium

Ok, we’re all Andy Warhol Campbell’s soup can’d out. We don’t care if he’s the only artist that you can cite in an art-related conversation or if he IS the art market anymore.

We want people to stop riffing off his can paintings. Others are tired of hearing him mentioned at every turn (like at the Guggenheim) but we’re simply exhausted with the endless number of imitators on the streets of New York & everywhere else. The image we posted above have been spotted all over Brooklyn and Manhattan in the last few weeks. It is a riff off of Shepard Fairey’s Obey brand (no, it doesn’t appear to be by Fairey’s crew) and TV’s favorite comedic news caster Stephen Colbert who is known for his love of art. I wanted to like these soup can works when I first spotted them but they simply look like an ad campaign. No word yet as to who is responsible for them.

After I spotted Luna Park’s tweet (posted above), I asked the prolific street art photographer how angry she really was about the soup can ubiquity and this was her response:

A wheatpasted Campbell’s soup can is an uninspired and derivative meme that begs the type of swift street justice best meted out with a spray can.

All hail the moratorium! May offenders be guillotined.

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