WARHOL, Andy

Surely the most audacious of those artists initially classified as Pop, Warhol created in the early 1960s representational paintings that, in retrospect, seem thoroughly designed to violate several earlier rules for high art. Originally a commercial artist with a reputation for drawing shoes, Warhol used silkscreening processes to transfer photographs and advertising imagery to fine-art canvas. (The other Pop artists created their images from scratch.) In these Warhol paintings, found images, mostly...