Did You Know? Andy Warhol (who was a Byzantine Catholic, BTW) showed his work “Campbell’s Soup Cans” on July 9, 1962 in his first one-mangallery exhibition as a fine artist in the Ferus Gallery of Los Angeles, California. The exhibition marked the West Coast debut of pop art. The combination of the semi-mechanized process, the non-painterly style, and the commercial subject initially caused offense, as the work’s blatantly mundane commercialism represented a direct affront to the technique and philosophy of abstract expressionism. So, that’s something, right? LEARN MORE.
