Andy Warhol the devout Catholic

[Hume]

No, not satire, as far as I can tell.

Andy Warhol’s Sacraments​

Even something as simple as a Coca-Cola held sacred meaning for him: “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.” For Warhol, food’s sacredness traversed these playful moments and more solemn ones, like when serving food to the homeless at the Church of the Heavenly Rest on the Upper East Side, or while kneeling in front of the Eucharist—which he humbly abstained from receiving—during Mass at St. Vincent Ferrer.

Andy Warhol’s Sacraments - First Things

Andy Warhol’s reproductions of popular brand logos have sparked debate as to whether he is playfully critiquing consumerism or snarkily endorsing it. Similarly, the subject of Warhol’s Catholic faith...

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[Hume]

Rather, it was his openness to God’s grace, precisely within the temple to the false gods of consumerism and artifice, that enabled him to subvert their message from the inside. He coded divine truths in a language that our idolatrous culture could comprehend. Warhol may not have been a paragon of sanctity, but his work was receptive to divine grace. He knew that he who is more powerful than any corporate entity can reach even our disenchanted, artificial age, if only we crack open the door to him.

 

[Walt]

I get Warhol's point, but there is a friend of a friend of mine who drinks sugar cane Coke flown in from Mexico... It costs $10 a bottle in NYC. I am not joking.

Maybe it is just my imagination, but it tasted better to me... Not 5 times better, so I would not buy it with my own money.... Anyway, I am trying to cut Coke out of my diet.

Sorry to go off topic Hume. You have good points about Warhol.