Somewhere Andy Warhol is laughing

It's about how you prepare yourself to "experience" art. So the joke is on the viewer, because they've convinced themselves they're looking at art when they're just looking at a painting of a soup can.

It's like John Cage, when he'd open up the windows and then just sit down at his piano and play nothing. The listener would be mentally prepared to "experience" the music, but instead they'd just be listening to the sounds coming from Union Square with the same mindset.

then i guess the joke's on moma!

oops - sposed to be a reply.

"When he painted the soup can picture... it changed the course of art history. No one had seen anyone do anything like this"

How many art degrees one must have to make that statement?

Because to me it looks like a fucking soup can.

To see a world in a grain of sand

And a heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand

And eternity in an hour.

i think that means he got it just right.

So did the Cambell Soup Company for decades, but they aren't glorified in the MOMA.