[ Warhol Painting] Andy Warhol first used the silkscreen method of transferring a black-and-white photograph to canvas in 1962. In theory, the method is machine-like and removes the artist's brush strokes from the process.

But Warhol's use of inexact areas defined by color and uneven grid patterns created a painterly image. In Flowers, four images of one flower appear within a grid of four silkscreens, each subtly different from the others.

Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, bequest of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1981.

Flowers, 1964, by Andy Warhol (1925-1987), oil and photoserigraph

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