The theme of this painting is the hard-working lifestyles of the overlooked Hispanic farmers. One can tell because the painting displays people looking down, focused on their work, without visible faces. They also appear to be connected to the field, as if it is their rightful/dutiful place in their community. From this painting, we can assume that the artist was part of the Hispanic farming culture from how much he seems to have observed and thought about this seemingly simple lifestyle. This is relative to the theme because one can infer that the artist thought these farmers needed more recognition from the people who bought his paintings (the wealthy) and he may have also wanted to promote farming in showing it as an honorable job for the strong, diligent, and responsible members of a culture, these farmers being the ones providing food for others.
S: workers (farming)
N: good worker, pro-labor
A: rich, influential people
P: to produce thought about the respectable living of a hard-working Hispanic farmer
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