This quote from Warhol sheds a little bit of light on the meaning behind his image and art. Although his message is glaringly obvious with paintings like his Campbell's Soup collection. The idea being the cans represent the processed, homogenous food coming from a factory etc., and being a statement on American lifestyles.
"My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us."
-Andy Warhol
It is my opinion though, that his message was more observation than critcism, he being more of a kind of prophet of the modern era, than someone who is warning us. He indulged in many different aspects of American culture and loved all of it.
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