Some of his most accomplished paintings rely primarily on shades of black and grey, with only occasional splashes of color. Juan is quieter than Marcial and spends more of his time in San Agustin. Many of Juan's paintings reflect the animistic religion of the Nahua, now synthesized with Catholicism. The sun, moon, stars, and animals are all portrayed with a god-like presence. In some pictures, birds and foxes sit high in the trees.
Men are more base.
They have mastered the earth, in the form of pottery, but they can only aspire to godliness by killing these animals with bows and arrows, or by honoring them with festivals. In Juan's artistic world, gods still stalk the earth. In Marcial's artistic world, the ancient gods are no longer present, but we must nonetheless dream them and give them an existence of another kind. Felix is the younger brother and his style is more derivative, though he has a number of fine works. Some of Felix's best works portray very large female figures juxtaposed with very small male figures.