An artist with a strikingly wide attention span, Lopéz is best known for intimate still lifes at one extreme and his urban panoramas at the other. Like many of his compositions, Glass With Flowers and Wall is built around an abstract pattern of horizontal strips, but the picture also draws on López's flirtation with Surrealist tendencies during the 1960s, sometimes dubbed "Magic Realism." You can almost imagine that someone flipped the switch in the lower right-hand corner, "turning on" the carnations in the glass. This quietly poetic rendering of white-on-white flowers bathed in light reminds me of the crystalline bouquets Manet painted late in life as well as the carnations in Wallace Stevens' "The Poems of Our Climate," with "the light in the room more like a snowy air,/ Reflecting snow."