Souped Up: 12 Larger Than Life Campbell’s Soup Cans

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Flickr user Tom Rolfe (Kapungo) visited Edinburgh, Scotland at the perfect time: August of 2007, during the Andy Warhol art exhibition. One wonders why the organizers didn’t make the column cladding cans Scotch Broth instead of Tomato.

Stop That Pigeon!

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Flickr user Adam Foster snapped The Odyssey (L’Odyssée), a surrealistic outsized outdoor installation by artist Cooke-Sasseville, in Quebec City, Canada. To quote the artist, “A park is taken over by three over-sized pigeons with their eye on a can of Campbell soup. These birds look like they cannot figure out how to open the object or how much food it contains. A reference to pop art and Andy Warhol, the installation becomes a representation of the so-called hermeticism that brings criticism to contemporary art.”

Bigger in Texas

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Flickr user Jon Fidler (dosbof) stumbled across a rather large Campbell’s Soup can while in the midst of a southwestern road trip back in 2012. The can is a feature attraction of the Eastland (Texas) Outdoor Art Museum and would appear to have been installed in 2002. Nice that the price per gallon is clearly marked; even nicer that cars and trucks don’t run on tomato soup.

Yamato Tomato

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The Hara Museum ARC opened in 1988 as an annex to the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Japan. One of the museum’s more accessible exhibits is a soup-er-sized version of a Campbell’s Soup can – tomato, of course – set amongst the museum’s lushly landscaped grounds as a tribute to Andy Warhol. No word if tomato soup is served in the museum’s cafeteria.