The indigenist and costumbrist painter, in his paintings embodied the beautiful pictures of Moche, of their favorite saints, as the patron of farmers, San Isidro Labrador, the portrait of his mother and many others who have traveled the world.
De Onís argues that Carrasquilla's work passed unknown in Colombia and abroad at the time because he lived during two different periods of Latin American literature: Costumbrismo and Romanticism, that had representatives like José Asunción Silva in Colombia, and the coming of Modernism as a reaction against Costumbrismo.