... won him a Carnegie Gold Medal), which use the blotted line technique that employs watercolour and gold leaf. These two mediums as well as silkscreen printing appeal to me very much; thus, this would help me create a work that transcends his career and the techniques he used while concentrating on the theme of Coca-Cola. The Coca-Cola bottle was the idea of Benjamin F. Thomas who thought that Coca-Cola, a new and fast growing beverage should have an idiosyncratic bottle. Thus, he wrote a short brief about this proposal, which was read by Alexander Samuelsson, a Swedish innovator whose passion was working with glass. Samuelsson researched and read about the cocoa bean and this had started a process that would give birth to the most iconic piece of packaging of the 20th century. Due to the bottle's iconic and omnipresent qualities, it was the ideal emblem for Pop Art. First ...

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