The Pleasure of Patterns in Art

The Pleasure of Patterns in Art

The interplay between repetition and variation is central to how we perceive structure, rhythm, and depth across mediums.

By: Samuel Jay Keyser

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Made at the high point of Kline, de Kooning, and Pollock, Andy Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup Cans” was a poke in the eye of abstract expressionism. Not only was it blatantly mimetic, but it was being blatantly mimetic with a mundane commercial product found in every supermarket and corner grocery store in America. When people think of repetition in painting, they probably think first of these iconic soup cans.

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