The centerpiece of this presentation is the large, bustling painting El Sereno Landscape (The Place of the Flowers). The viewer is led into the composition by two towering, beautifully rendered cypress trees. These frame a vibrant working-class neighborhood, with the ever-present Los Angeles tire shop nestled beside colorful homes and apartments.
Peering over the landscape is a small ranch house in the distant hills - a nod to the city's more agricultural past, but also to its ever-changing future: a U-Haul truck ferries in the city's newest resident, perhaps. Amid this cycle of constant renewal and displacement, López pays homage to the working-class community.
The composition contains no figures, as in early photographs of bustling street scenes whose figures moved too fast for the technology to capture - the image of the figure is lost, but their energy remains.
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