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Urban Art Mapping: Covid-19 Street Art

Virus Soup

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The Velvet Bandit

Petaluma, California, USA

May 19, 2020

This piece by the Velvet Bandit takes inspiration from Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Warhol’s work comments on consumer culture and mass media by hand-painting a commercial product so familiar to his audience and blurring the line between product and art. In a similar fashion, Velvet Bandit hand-paints her wheat-paste images, sometimes using the same image base repeatedly with slightly different text. In this way, this can of soup might be commenting on the saturation of media about Covid-19 and its pervasiveness.

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Sources:

https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/andy-warhol-campbells-soup-cans-1962/

https://www.thevelvetbandit.com/about

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