The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is a place that fuels creativity and provides inspiration. Its extraordinary art collection includes modern and contemporary art such as The Color (Manuel Alvarez Bravo).

2006 Matisse described the abstract zone at the right of this composition as containing "a person who has a palette in his hand and who is observing." Most likely, it is the artist himself. The surrealist poet André Breton said of the painting, "I believe Matisse's genius is here .

MoMA Audio Collection , 2008, 519 Director, Glenn Lowry: Artist Jenny Holzer spoke about Meret Oppenheim's Object in 1988 at The Museum of Modern Art. Jenny Holzer: This is an everyday object, but its also an otherworldly thing. It's sinister. It seems like a cup that could fight back.

MoMA Audio: Collection , 2008 Curator, Anne Umland: This work is a self-portrait of the Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo. You note that this is a figure dressed in an oversize charcoal gray suit with crimson shirt.

The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, revised 2004, originally published 1999, p. 196 Magenta, Black, Green on Orange follows a compositional structure that Rothko explored for twenty-three years beginning in 1947. Narrowly separated, rectangular blocks of color hover in a column against a colored ground.

2011 "I try to show," Bearden said, "that when some things are taken out of the usual context and put in the new, they are given an entirely new character." A strategy of fragmentation and recombination informs Bearden's approach to art-making.

The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, revised 2004, originally published 1999, p. 123 The term abstraction, as it is generally applied to photography, is misleading. Completely indecipherable photographs are quite rare and usually quite boring.