Carcass wrote:
Far from condemning Warhol for his apparent superficiality and commercialism, critics today ________ him for these very qualities, contending that in these superficial, commercial artworks he had captured the essence of American culture in the 1970s.
A. belittle
B. chastise
C. tolerate
D. extol
E. flaunt
F. hail
The phrase 'Far from' suggests us that the missing word should be a synonym opposite to condemning.
Extol and Hail are good fits, thus option D and F are correct answers.