One of the most influential artists of the late 20th century, Warhol began painting in the late 1950s and received sudden notoriety in 1962, when he exhibited 32 silkscreened paintings of Campbell's soup cans in a California art gallery. The blatantly mundane content of the exhibition ran contrary to the abstract expressionist aesthetic of the time and generated much controversy, establishing Warhol as the leading exponent of the pop art movement. How did the soup cans differ from one another? Discuss (http://forum.thefreedictionary.com/postst17259_Andy-Warhol-s--i-Campbell-s-Soup-Cans--i--Exhibition-Opens--1962-.aspx)
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