Brillo Boxes

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Brillo Boxes is a series of sculptural works by Andy Warhol that replicate commercial Brillo soap pad packaging, exemplifying his exploration of consumer culture and mass production in Pop Art.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Pop Art artwork
sculpture series
artForm installation art
sculpture
basedOn Brillo soap pad packaging
collection Museum of Modern Art
Tate Modern
various private collections
color blue
red
white
copyrightHolder Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
countryOfOrigin United States
creator Andy Warhol
depicts Brillo soap pad box
describedBySource Pop Art scholarship
art history literature
displayStyle stacked like supermarket cartons
exhibitionYear 1964
firstExhibitedAt Stable Gallery
genre appropriation art
conceptual art
hasEffect challenged distinction between high art and commercial design
provoked debates on originality and authorship
hasPart stacked box arrangements
wooden box sculptures
inception 1964
influenced contemporary appropriation art
postmodern art theory
influencedBy advertising design
mass media
supermarket display
languageOfWork English
locationOfFirstExhibition New York City
mainSubject branding
commercial packaging
consumer culture
mass production
materialUsed plywood
silkscreen ink
movement Pop Art
notableWorkOf Andy Warhol
partOf Andy Warhol’s box sculptures
productionMethod factory-like studio process
serial reproduction
relatedWork Campbell’s Soup Cans
Heinz Boxes
usesTechnique silkscreen printing
stenciling

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Andy Warhol
notableWork
Brillo Boxes ("Andy Warhol’s box sculptures")
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