Juan Luna was a Filipino painter sculptor and a political activist of the Philippine Evolution in the late 19th century and he became one of the first recognized Philippine artists.

Meaning of juan luna. An 1892 oil on canvas impressionist painting by Filipino painter and revolutionary activist Juan Luna. The Spoliarium which is often misspelled as Spolarium truly exceeds the given definition of art. The picture shows how gladiators are being dragged pitilessly by work forces towards an unknown darkness.

The famous painting was a silver medalist or second prize winner during the 1881 National Exposition of Fine. The Spoliarium which was painted by Juan Luna is considered one of the most internationally renowned pieces of modern Filipino art. Shouting for blood while to.

Don Lorenzo Guerrero became his first tutor and convinced his parents to send him to Spain. Juan Luna used this as a form to indiscreetly tell the suffering of the Filipinos from the Spaniards as they also sort of treat them like the Roman gladiators. This historical painting was awarded a silver medal but it has never been seen again.

The Spoliarium is the most valuable iconic oil painting by Juan Luna which features a glimpse of Roman history focused on the gory bloodshed brought by gladiatorial matches. The Spoliarium depicts an even during the Roman imperium. España Y Filipinas España Y Filipinas meaning Spain and the Philippines is an oil on wood painting of Juan Luna on 1886.

Literally the woman from Bulacan. The two women together are the representation of Spain and Philippines. Luna killed his wife of jealousy.

It can be read as an ideological unveiling not only of late 19th-century French modernity but the gait glance and gesture of the other spectacle and myth that it mirrors. When he was drawn to Paris after Madrid it was there that he met his wife Paz who he would marry in 1886 and kill in 1892. Measuring 57 cm x 79 cm 22 in x 31 in.