A Coke is a Coke

A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke... All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good.
— Andy Warhol explaining why Coca-Cola is a prime example of the democratic ideals at the heart of American consumer culture

"Green Coca-Cola Bottles" (Andy Warhol, 1962, at the Whitney Museum)

What is the artist trying to say in this painting?

(Seen in bathroom of Taqueria specializing in fish tacos) 

(Seen in bathroom of Taqueria specializing in fish tacos) 

  • The owners of these flipflops and surfboards are frolicking elsewhere? 
  • 4-5 people have been swept out to sea leaving behind the detritus of their young lives? 
  • Seagulls have already picked their carcases clean and then the bones were washed out to sea?
  • The artist doesn't know how to paint the human figure?