INTERJECTIONS is a series of loan exchanges between the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA).

The collections of the two museums complement one another and the INTERJECTIONS initiative affirms the continuities that link artistic tradition—the Getty focuses on art created before 1900 (with the notable exception of photography), while MOCA presents works made since 1940.

In this second installment of INTERJECTIONS, the Getty has installed Piet Mondrian's Composition of Red, Blue, Yellow and White: NOM III, 1939 from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in relation to its Annunciation by Dieric Bouts.

Mondrian's intimate, abstract painting relates to the Bouts in terms of composition and color. While the 15th-century painting tells an overtly religious story, the 20th-century one is deliberately free of subject matter.

Mondrian, however, discussed his pure abstractions in spiritual terms. He believed that vertical and horizontal forms represented the opposing tensions of the universe and that they came together to produce a spiritual unity.

In exchange, the Getty's A Walk at Dusk by Caspar David Friedrich has traveled to MOCA, where it is in dialogue with Christopher Orr's Of Both Worlds.

Composition of Red, Blue, Yellow and White: NOM III, 1939 will be on view at the Getty Center, Museum, North Pavilion, through February 12, 2006. A Walk at Dusk will be on view at MOCA from November 20, 2005, to January 9, 2006.