Raúl Cordero's figurative approach to abstraction lends itself to speaking to the human experience in a postmodern context. He is best known for his blurred paintings of representational motifs—think of trees, portraits, or landscapes—accompanied by conceptual elements, most often in the forms of geometrical shapes or text, integrated into the picture plane. Cordero examines the subtle distinction between looking and reading. For instance, when do we start to read a painting instead of looking at it?