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    Spoliarium and Guernica are similar in their political agenda, artists, and reception. Both paintings aimed to portray injustice - Spoliarium depicted oppression of Filipinos by Spaniards and Guernica showed the bombing of civilians in Spain. The artists, Juan Luna and Pablo Picasso respectively, created their works to expose the truth and criticize the unjust treatment in their countries. While Spoliarium won awards in the Philippines, Guernica became internationally renowned and is considered a masterpiece, with its anti-war message recognized around the world.

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    Spoliarium and Guernica are similar in their political agenda, artists, and reception. Both paintings aimed to portray injustice - Spoliarium depicted oppression of Filipinos by Spaniards and Guernica showed the bombing of civilians in Spain. The artists, Juan Luna and Pablo Picasso respectively, created their works to expose the truth and criticize the unjust treatment in their countries. While Spoliarium won awards in the Philippines, Guernica became internationally renowned and is considered a masterpiece, with its anti-war message recognized around the world.

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    Spoliarium and Guernica are similar in their political agenda, artists, and reception. Both paintings aimed to portray injustice - Spoliarium depicted oppression of Filipinos by Spaniards and Guernica showed the bombing of civilians in Spain. The artists, Juan Luna and Pablo Picasso respectively, created their works to expose the truth and criticize the unjust treatment in their countries. While Spoliarium won awards in the Philippines, Guernica became internationally renowned and is considered a masterpiece, with its anti-war message recognized around the world.

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    How Spoliarium similar to Guernica in terms of

    Political agenda
    The artist
    Relativity to its audience/acceptance

    POLITICAL AGENDA
    In the painting Spoliarium Rizal was footnoted in his speech that the Spoliarium,
    "embodied the essence of our social, moral and political life: humanity in severe ordeal,
    humanity unredeemed, reason and idealism in open struggle with prejudice, fanaticism and
    injustice. Similar to the art Guernica by Pablo Picasso they have the same essence, to portray
    inequality and injustice on their town or country at that time.

    THE ARTIST
    Pablo Picasso and Juan Luna has the same in the way of creating a magnificent art,
    they both create the art that the audience realize the truth and reality improper happens, so
    they know what's going on in their place at the time. Pablo Picasso draw the art Guernica
    because of his outrage on bombing of civilians by a military air force, and Juan Luna whant
    to interpret that was all about the bloodied bodies of gladiators, who were drawn as slaves;
    and dragged away from the wide and powerful arena as they attempted to fight their Roman
    oppressors, with their own precious and God given lives. In addition, these slaves on this
    world-renowned painting of Juan Luna were physically stripped of their clothing in order to
    gratify the lewd and devilish contempt of those Roman oppressors. Thus, this had excellently
    embodied the essence of the political, moral and social lives of the Filipino.

    RELATIVITY TO ITS AUDIENCE/ACCEPTANCE


    On their different story about the art they created, Spuliarium and Guernica, Juan
    Luna and Pablo Picasso,They did paint and draw to show their countrymen the criticism of
    the unjust in their country. That their countrymen know their abusive right, the Spuliarium
    of Juan Luna won a first gold medal and got top awards, and the Guernica by Pablo Picasso is
    acclaimed as an artistic masterpiece, taking its rightful place among the great Spanish
    treasures of El Greco, Goya and Velazquez. "A lot of people recognize the painting," says art
    historian Patricia Failing. "They may not even know that it's a Picasso, but they recognize the
    image. It's a kind of icon."( http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/guernica/gmain.html)

    The Message of the two art form was really clear and straight to the heart of their audience.

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