Word: malevich
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...Museum of Modern Art has as many jolts as a Coney Island funhouse. Some summer tourists, thankful for the air-conditioning (installed primarily to protect the pictures), take it all in good part. Others are made to feel stupid, cross, or both, when confronted with such enigmatic works as Malevich's White on White-a white-painted canvas adorned with one tilted white square. They are dizzied by the linoleum-like pattern of Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, dismayed by the necrophilic horror of Albright's Woman, and dumbfounded by Joan Miro's Person Throwing...
Pictures like White on White have more historic than intrinsic interest (painted 30 years ago, Malevich's solemn joke helped clear the way for later abstractionists). A few highbrow enthusiasts maintain that other paintings like the Miro and the Mondrian are really great art, and that the public will some day realize it. Be that as it may, the museum keeps buying whatever suits its own rarefied fancy, and exhibiting its finds with an air of "Close your mouth and open your eyes and I will give you a big surprise!" Last week it had on exhibition two recent...