Andy Warhol — "What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the …"
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good.
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American Pop Art icon whose Factory industrialized image-making and erased the line between commerce and fine art.
Closely associated with
Roy Lichtenstein (Pop comic-strip painter) and Robert Rauschenberg (combine-painter precursor).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Mark Rothko, Abstract Expressionist of the deeply personal color field — Rothko stood for emotional depth and singular authorship — exactly what Warhol's silkscreen production line industrially refused.
