The Tilled Field is dominated by muted tones of yellow and brown (khaki). The painting is divided into three areas by two horizontal lines. A diagonal line puts the top right corner of the painting in the dark of night, while the rest is in the light of day. The painting is littered with a confused mixture of forms, most of which with aspects of animals, and plants, with one in the bottom middle appearing seemingly as a mixture of both with a human. The various animal forms are derived from Catalan ceramics, including a lizard wearing a conical hat. A tree to the right of the centre has a large eye in its green crown and a human ear on its brown trunk. Hanging from the tree is a shape covered with more eyes, possibly a pinecone, or perhaps a visual representation of the forbidden fruit, with both eyes and the ear on the tree representing the power that is acquiring knowledge; at the base of the tree is a folded newspaper with the French word jour (day). Further right, in the background, is a human figure following a cattle-drawn plough, possibly (although not really since ploughs weren’t around during Palaeolithic era and the person on the painting has a hat reassembling a matador’s one so at best this could be a faint homage if even that) based on the Altamira cave paintings. Also in the background, towards the centre, is a ramshackle house with a chimney, and further left a tree-like object bearing the flags of France, Spain and Catalonia. Another plant-like object to the left bears a further, Italian flag.
