Modular Painting, 1969, is composed of four panels which are identical both in their dimensions and in the discernible subject matter. Yet the manner of their construction produces a central geometrical form which gives the impression that these panels have heterogeneous forms.

Lichtenstein is an illusionist. Modular Painting, with its impersonal and mechanical execution, keeps the viewer's gaze at a distance all the better to draw it in. This seemingly simple and austere composition can be interpreted as an ironic reference to abstract painting.