The Art of Soup!?

December 11, 2012

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Last week, as I was rushing through the aisles of Target, I found art in the most unexpected of places-in the canned soup aisle!

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In order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first exhibition of Andy Warhol’s pop art, Campbell’s  is selling tomato soup with Pop Art labels.

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Mr. Warhol was known for turning the ordinary into the extraordinary…

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These tomato soup cans jumped right off the shelf (visually) among the aisles of all the familiar soup labels.  Off the shelf and into my cart…

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Who wants plain ol’ soup…when you can have “soup of a different color”?!

Brilliant marketing if you ask me…

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Got to go, I have the strangest craving for a grilled cheese sandwich….

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