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España y Filipinas (“Spain and the Philippines") is a series of oil on wood paintings [1] [2] by Filipino painter, Ilustrado, and revolutionary activist, Juan Luna. It is an allegorical depiction [ 3 ] of two women together, one a representation of Spain and the other of the Philippines . [ 4 ]
right España y Filipinas, 1886 oil on canvas painting by Juan Luna. Philippine–Spanish Friendship Day (Spanish: Día de la Amistad Hispano-Filipina, Filipino: Araw ng Pagkakaibigang Pilipino-Espanyol or Araw ng Pagkakaibigan ng mga Pilipino at Espanyol) celebrates the strong links between the Republic of the Philippines and the Kingdom of Spain every June 30.
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Filipino art experts, historians, and researchers have four theories on the identity of the sitter in Luna's La Bulaqueña despite the lack of any photographs. According to Emilio Aguilar Cruz, a columnist for the Philippine Daily Globe newspaper, the woman in the portrait could be a woman Luna had courted after losing his wife Paz Pardo de Tavera.
In his painting known as España y Filipinas ("Spain and the Philippines", 1886), Luna used symbolism and allegory by rendering a taller and strong-shouldered maternal Spaniard woman (representing Spain and colonialism) guiding a shorter, graceful and "humbly dressed" Filipino woman (representing the Philippines) towards the way to progress. [3 ...
In 2008, The Blood Compact and other Luna works became a part of a twenty-three painting exhibition from the collection of the Bank of the Philippine Islands.The public exhibition celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the Bank of the Philippines Islands, and marked the first time that the so-called "BPI collection" was shown to the public.
This category addresses the location of the painting, and not necessarily the nationality of the painter or the subject of the painting. It will mimic the structure of Paintings in Italy category . Pages in category "Paintings in the Philippines"
La Madrileña (En el Balcón) (literally "The Woman from Madrid (At the Balcony)"), sometimes simply referred to as La Madrileña, is a painting by award-winning Filipino painter and revolutionary activist Juan Luna. It depicts a woman holding an umbrella known as the parasol.