The style of Fernando Botero, a prominent Columbian artist, is easily recognized. The sculpture “Woman with a Pocket Mirror” is a good example of that style. Traditional culture, the Spanish Baroque, and the influence of European surrealism and other modernist movements become an interesting fusion. Botero’s characters impress us with their grotesque, oversized proportions. These “fantastic creatures of magic, metaphor, and myth” have both sophistication and powerful life-affirming energy. They are reserved and unhurried, as if they remain in their eternal dreamy calmness, sometimes resembling the magical atmosphere of the prose of Gabriel García Márquez, who also came from Columbia. Just like Márquez, Botero tried to “destroy the demarcation line between what seems to be real and what looks fanciful, " as “this barrier does not exist” for him.