Andy Warhol's rise to fame was not easy. Obsessed with his profession as a commercial artist in New York, he struggled to gain recognition as a true artist, but kept trying. He experimented with different styles of art hoping to get a solo exhibition in a gallery. One of Warhol's experimental styles was influenced by comics; he made paintings that included comic book characters, along with balloons. Warhol was very disappointed after seeing the paintings of an artist named Roy Lichtenstein, whose work also resembled comics. Fearing that his comic-style paintings were inferior to Lichtenstein's, Warhol moved on to another motif: painting consumer goods, particularly Campbell's soup cans. His 32 original paintings of Campbell's Soup Cans (titled Campbell's Soup Cans) played an important role in defining Andy Warhol's artistic career. In addition to helping him mount his first solo exhibition, Campbell's Soup Cans steered the direction of Warhol's future work. It was thanks to Campbell's Soup Cans that Andy Warhol held his first solo art exhibition, in the summer of 1962. Although Warhol lived and worked in New York, the exhibition took place in Los Angeles, at the Ferus Gallery. The exhibition was made possible by Irving Blum, who ran the Ferus Gallery at the time. During his visit to New York, Blum was intrigued by several paintings of Campbell's canned soup that he saw in Warhol's studio. After Warhol explained his intention to paint a series of cans for every taste in the Campbell's Soup catalogue, Blum proposed an exhibition of the entire collection and Warhol embraced the idea. The exhibition, consisting of 32 paintings, lasted most of the summer and managed to cause quite a stir in the art world...... middle of paper...... of this significance. Warhol captured the impact of expressing ideas through the use of repetition and adopted this technique into his future designs. After the Campbell's Soup Cans exhibition, Warhol moved on to explore other themes for his art, such as pop stars and car accidents, but he did not stop painting. Campbell's canned soup. Soup can works have appeared in different sizes, different colors, different contexts, and even a combination of Elvis Presley and a soup can. Warhol also made some paintings with 100 or more Campbell's Soup cans arranged in a grid. He probably made as many paintings of Campbell's soup cans as he did of pop stars. Was Warhol implying that soup cans were pop stars too? They were definitely pop stars for Warhol and also for Pop Art, because if it hadn't been for Campbell's soup cans Andy Warhol might have been nothing more than a footnote.