Several different aspects supply Jaime José’s artistic iconography, ranging from his own life experiences that are kept nestled in an associative memory—and, with no doubt, involuntary—, to a lavish and plentiful imagination from which images that reiterate or show themselves in series that have diverse variants, sprout.

Undeniably, there exists in his work a deeply rooted popular tradition. There are times when that sense of collective imagination is also associated with a childish vision. Yet it would be a mistake to think that because of this, the artist belongs then to the breed of ingenious painters. On the contrary, Jaime José is very conscious of the scope of his work, inevitably etched in an American neo-baroque of various particular meanings.

There is a certain sense of scenery in the paintings of Jaime José that takes elements of everyday life as those that are generated by a deliberate artificiality. It is precisely in these imaginative and artificial constructions where the artist locates a creativity that distinguishes and identifies him.

Signs and symbols appear in his work (the cross is a structural constant that reiterates in him throughout time). Human fate is always present in these metaphors that act like disguises to the contemplation of symbolic vision, which do not lack a religious sense of existence.

Color has a protagonist role in his paintings and is associated with symbolic conception. In modern crossbreeding of styles and expressive media, several influences are manifested: from surrealism, usually present in most Mexican artists’ works, to expressionism that brushes with magic realism and with the phantasmagoric.

Without a doubt, by using his dexterity with emblematic painting, Jaime José’s artwork offers a world that has yet to be discovered.