Looking for something entirely different on the World Wide Web, I chanced upon a print series by Roy Lichtenstein, which I have seen never before. “Cow Triptych (Cow Going Abstract)” is the title. One-hundred and fifty prints of it were made in 1982. The series is quite funny to behold. The first print shows a cow grazing. The cow is cut up and glued together haphazardly in the second. And the third print is pure geometry without a trace of the cow remaining. With its blues, yellows, whites, grays, and blacks, it smacks of Mondrian, too. I could not find any explanation of the triptych, but it strikes me as Lichtenstein’s joke on abstraction. It is as though we have conspired to make it together. The very notion is a joke, to be sure. Geometric art has nothing to do with so-called abstraction, as I have argued time and again, and Lichtenstein’s series shows it plainly enough. Every art historian should have it on the wall above his or her bed. Abstraction is a joke on the entire profession, no less.