Andy Warhol's Soup Cans are artistically significant for their role in firmly entrenching Pop art as a notable movement, one that combined images and themes from consumer and commercial media, but without the consumer or commercial intent inherent in product marketing. The nuances of each label and the novelty of reading label descriptions as part of art was unheard of at the time, but we find it commonplace to view captioned and labeled images in this day and age. Andy Warhol used information as art.
Andy made it OK to put ordinary things into art and in fact proved that there is as much impact that can be had from a cartoon style still life of a soup can as there could be on a table full of fruit [1]. Maybe even more.