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# We Need a Campbell's Soup Can Moratorium
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/campbells-soup-can-moratorium/
- Published: 2011-05-19T01:00:40.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:48:52.000Z
- Description: i call a moratorium on campbell's tomato soup can related street art. enough is enough. not original anymore in the slightest. please stop.less than a minute ago [http://twitter.com/#!/lunaparknyc/status/70947029962063872] via web [http://si0.twimg.com/images/dev/cms/intents/icons/favorite.png] Favo
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, #image-position-hidden, Andy Warhol, Luna Park, Street Art, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/05/moratorium-colbertsoup-600.jpg)

A smartphone pic I snapped in Williamsburg of. yet. another. Warhol. related. work. (photo by the author)

> i call a moratorium on campbell's tomato soup can related street art. enough is enough. not original anymore in the slightest. please stop.  
>  
> — Luna Park (@LunaPark) [May 18, 2011](https://twitter.com/LunaPark/status/70947029962063872?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com)

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](https://hyperallergic.com/warhol-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](http://www.artfagcity.com/2011/04/28/stop-mentioning-andy-warhol/?ref=hyperallergic.com)) but we’re simply exhausted with the endless number of imitators on the [streets of New York & everywhere else](http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=rec&ss=2&w=all&q=streetart+campbells&m=text&ref=hyperallergic.com). 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](https://hyperallergic.com/steve-martin-frank-stella-shepard-fairey-andres-serrano-on-colbert-report/). 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](http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlebigjoe/5641428101/?ref=hyperallergic.com).

All hail the moratorium! [May offenders be guillotined](http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff%5Fw/2558628672/?ref=hyperallergic.com).