Dream America

"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 can 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 that 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."

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), 1975.

Andy Warhol 1978


This was the last weekend of the Andy Warhol exhibit at the UMFA. Even though Andy Warhol is not my favorite Pop Artist, I am intrigued by the philosophy and purpose of the Pop Art movement: to make art accessible to the masses by incorporating popular culture into the artwork. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to see such an impressive collection in Utah. I roped my friend Patty into going with me. We spent hours debating over which Marilyn was our favorite. Seriously though, we did spend a lot of time comparing the different pieces and reading about his philosophy and how his art changed from the time he started painting. It was fascinating.

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1967

The following quote struck us both, "Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see. . . . But you can only live life in one place at a time. And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory." America, 1985