Of “Brillo Boxes” and “Campbell’s Soup Cans” by Andy Warhol

[edhopper]

16. Yes

I don't disagree that being in a museum or gallery is part of what makes it art. if only because it is put there with the purpose of making us look at it a different way. But then MOMA has a whole floor of commercial products that are meant to be look at for their artistic design.

“What Warhol taught was that there is no way of telling the difference merely by looking. The eye, so prized an aesthetic organ when it was felt that the difference between art and non-art was visible, was philosophically of no use whatever when the differences proved instead to be invisible.”

Well, the are not invisible, i could tell they weren't real Brillo boxes, and of course the Soup cans where images. I agree the location is essential for the purpose of these reproductions, but they are discernibly different.

I would say his ideas are more appropriate to much minimalist art. Piles of stones, or wood beams which are only seen as art due to where they are.