Description

Small Tigua painting depicting peasant life. The canvas is a piece of skin stretched and nailed over a wooden frame. The outside of the frame is painted black. The landscape is broken up into shapes with straight and curvilinear lines. On the left side, in the foreground, there is a square yellow patch in which a man and woman are cutting grains. In front, there are six bundles of grain and behind there is a dense field. They both hold large sickles in their hands. There is a dark green field inhabited by grey llamas. On the left side of the painting, there are raised bluffs above the field of llamas. They are bright green with large leafy plants, large pink flowers, small pink flowers, yellow flowers and bushy green trees against the horizon. There are also bluffs on the right side of the painting. The two bluffs are separated by a dark dirt road that curves down from the middle to the right side of the painting. There are three people walking up this road; two men who have tall bundles of grain strapped to their backs and a woman in a pink shirt and dark blue skirt. A white dog trails behind the woman. Walking down the hill are a woman and a man. At the bottom of the road, there are two buildings. One has a brown roof and grey walls and the other has a light brown roof and white walls. There is also a bundle of sticks and a large orange pot with a handle. There are two different patches of land on the bluffs on the right side of the painting. One is dark green with small dense tufts of pink and green flowers. Above this patch, there is one with a dark green background with plants that have blue stems and yellow and pink flowers. Also atop the right bluff, there are two buildings and a tree against the horizon. The sky is a mixture of yellow and light blue paint. There are many black birds in silhouette against the sky.