Tigua Painting

Tigua painting with a decoratively painted border depicting a peasant uprising. The canvas is formed by a piece of skin stretched and nailed over a wooden frame. The edges of the frame are painted black. Around the central image, there is a black border painted on the canvas. The border is decorated with a gold, grey, blue, red and pink pattern. The sky, a gradient from dark blue to grey-pink, serves as the background of the painting. There are white fluffy clouds, black and white birds and an orange and yellow sun in the sky. Set against the horizon, there are rolling green hills and blue mountains. The tallest of the mountains is snow-capped. Some of the fields are broken into geometric fields delineated by various shades of blue and green. On the left side of the painting, there is a cluster of four stone huts nestled in the hills. There are lush green trees as well as palm-like trees growing behind the cluster of houses. There is a larger cluster of huts sitting atop a hill near the centre of the painting, and similar trees nearby. A rushing blue and white stream flows past the left side of the central cluster of huts. There is another small cluster of huts nestled in the hills on the right side of the painting. A brown path leads toward this cluster from the centre of the image, and a number of people walk along it. On the left edge of the painting, in front of the cluster of three huts, there is a brown cliff with grass growing on top of it. The rocky edges of the cliff seem to have faces in profile in them. A brown path curves around the cliff to the bottom edge of the image. The path is crowded with a many indigenous people carrying brown sticks upright and wearing white wide-brimmed hats. One of the indigenous people carries a white sign with black lettering. His sign reads “Lucha de movimie nto indigena Lucha por La Tierra.” To the right of the large crowd, there is a bridge crossing the stream. Two peasants, also with white wide-brimmed hats and sticks, walk across the bridge. On the right side of the bridge, a soldier upraises the bayonet of his rifle to hold another group of peasants on the right side of the painting at bay. The soldier wears a white helmet, white suspenders and a green shirt. This group of peasants, like the others, carry sticks and wear white wide-brimmed hats. In the foreground on the left side of the image, there are two stone huts with brown tiled roofs. To the right, there is a soldier in a white helmet, green shirt, white suspenders, and yellow pants and with a rifle strapped to his back. The soldier is gripping the shirt and pants of a peasant who has fallen to the ground on his back. Another soldier stands with his gun held tight to his chest. A peasant crouches behind the soldier and extends his hand toward a rock on the ground. Further back, a peasant stands with his stick over his shoulder as if to swing it. A fourth soldier stands to the right in the foreground. Scattered throughout the landscape are green plants with pink and white flowers. The artists name is written in white paint in the lower right corner. On the back of the object, there is a white card with the artist’s community, a description of the event depicted, a number and the size of the work written on it.