Coca-Cola Painting $$$

I just learned one of four Andy Warhol Coca-Cola paintings just sold for $57.2 million dollars to Wal-Mart heiress Alice L. Walton.  What does this mean?

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Well, first I suppose ole' Andy would be pleased with the irony.  The painting is a hand painted black and white Coca-Cola bottle the size of a human.  It's a towering symbol of pop art.  Coca-Cola is for the masses, Warhol once said more or less in a popular quote.  If there is anything for the masses beyond Coca-Cola, its definitely Wal-Mart.  Way to go Alice!

Andy Warhol on Coke

One of my favorite soda quotes is by Andy Warhol.  In his 1975 book, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, he writes about Coca-Cola.

"What's great about this country is that American 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.  Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it."  -Andy Warhol

Yup!