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Ok fair enough I agree there is art here but I think the art I am looking at here was done by someone working at campbells soup company.
I genuinely can't see what artistically differenciates this from having actual boxes of soup and hair jell stacked. if the point is that it's commercial and day to day then Warhol has done that worse than the people he's copying as actually selling soup would be the height of making that point
Heck, I agree with you about that. He should have just sold soup cans. And that is what other artists in modern art have basically done after him, in part because Warhol pushed the boundary towards that first. A lot of modern art is showing off commercialization. Like that Banksy piece that shredded itself after being auctioned off.
And also I wanna say: Warhol himself fucking sucks. I am not defending him I am just defending his work as being influential.
The fact that someone is willing to pay so much money for these boxes and what that says is part of the art. I think you are using the term art to refer to the physical objects on display, but the object itself isn't the art - the relationships that the object facilitates are. The relationship between the viewer and the object, the relationship between the artist and the object, the relationship between the viewer and the artist through the object, etc.
Some paint on a canvas is just that: paint on a canvas. It only becomes art through our engagement with it.