Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo, two Filipino painters, won prizes at an art exposition in Madrid in 1884. This achievement was celebrated with a banquet organized by Pedro Paterno to honor the painters and promote the Philippines among Spanish politicians and journalists. The banquet was reported in the Spanish newspaper El Imparcial, showing the different forces at work in the Filipino movement, including Spanish artists and left-wing politicians who supported reforms in the Philippines as well as conservatives who supported Spanish rule. At the banquet, Lopez Jaena and Jose Rizal gave speeches praising Filipino culture and lamenting problems under Spanish rule, while still expressing unity with Spain. This event showed rising Filipino nationalism and
Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo, two Filipino painters, won prizes at an art exposition in Madrid in 1884. This achievement was celebrated with a banquet organized by Pedro Paterno to honor the painters and promote the Philippines among Spanish politicians and journalists. The banquet was reported in the Spanish newspaper El Imparcial, showing the different forces at work in the Filipino movement, including Spanish artists and left-wing politicians who supported reforms in the Philippines as well as conservatives who supported Spanish rule. At the banquet, Lopez Jaena and Jose Rizal gave speeches praising Filipino culture and lamenting problems under Spanish rule, while still expressing unity with Spain. This event showed rising Filipino nationalism and
Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo, two Filipino painters, won prizes at an art exposition in Madrid in 1884. This achievement was celebrated with a banquet organized by Pedro Paterno to honor the painters and promote the Philippines among Spanish politicians and journalists. The banquet was reported in the Spanish newspaper El Imparcial, showing the different forces at work in the Filipino movement, including Spanish artists and left-wing politicians who supported reforms in the Philippines as well as conservatives who supported Spanish rule. At the banquet, Lopez Jaena and Jose Rizal gave speeches praising Filipino culture and lamenting problems under Spanish rule, while still expressing unity with Spain. This event showed rising Filipino nationalism and
Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo, two Filipino painters, won prizes at an art exposition in Madrid in 1884. This achievement was celebrated with a banquet organized by Pedro Paterno to honor the painters and promote the Philippines among Spanish politicians and journalists. The banquet was reported in the Spanish newspaper El Imparcial, showing the different forces at work in the Filipino movement, including Spanish artists and left-wing politicians who supported reforms in the Philippines as well as conservatives who supported Spanish rule. At the banquet, Lopez Jaena and Jose Rizal gave speeches praising Filipino culture and lamenting problems under Spanish rule, while still expressing unity with Spain. This event showed rising Filipino nationalism and
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Banquet for Luna and Hidalgo
• In 1884 at the Exposcion de Bella Artes in Madrid, two Filipino painters won prizes
Juan Luna y Novicio received gold medal of the first Felix Ressurection Hidalgo a medal of the second class class for his SPOLIARUM for his Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho • The Filipino colony was Jubilant over the triumph • Pedro Paterno held a banquet to honor the two painters, to make the Philippines better know among the politicians and journalist of Madrid • Account of banquet given in the liberal newspaper, El Imparcial ( showed different forces at works in Filipino movement) SPANISH PRESENT Spanish artist, representative of principal news paper of Madrid Various politicians of left- wing liberal or republic affiliation - Sagismundo Moret, Miguel Morayta, Rafael M. Libra Telegram were received from Ministro de Fomento and Ministro de Ultramar , excusing themselves from attending but “adhering the intention of the banquet” Miguel Azcarraga – Conservative political affiliation, close associated with Filipinos - earlier azcarraga offred a toast in the banquet. Rafael M. Libra, representative of the Cuban autonomist offered a toast, propose a toast to the Patria Espanola Miguel Azcarraga- second those “ The King of Spain” personification of the Fatherland FILIPINO REPRESENTATIVE – among the Filipinos ,Lopez Jaena and Rizal made a noble speeches
Lopez Jaena, speech:
“after a dark night of more than three hundred years, the brilliant sun of justice” “despite the theocracy, ever despotic and ignorant, living as it does amid shadows and mystery” “despite a the colossal power of intransigence, denies you entrance into the circle of modern culture” Went to exalt the pre- Hispanic civilization, so often deprecated in order deny the capacity of the Filipino modern civilization. The triumph of Luna and Hidalgo - expressing the laments of the people “devoured by the nepotism and the greed of bureaucracy, chocked by the errors of a semi- absolute, autocratic, liberticide which maintains with more zeal than ever the division of races” Jose Rizal, speech: - remark on the opposition to the learning od Spanish in the Philippines - “those short-sighted pygmies, who in assuring the present; are not able to see the future, do not weight the consequence; nurses, who are themselves diseased; corruption and corruptors” - for they are dead; they have no breath of life, no soul. Exalt Luna and hidalgo as the glory of two peoples- Spanish and Filipino. Proposed a toast to the Filipino youth, “ the sacred hope of my fatherland” August Jose M. Cecilio wrote the enthusiasm of the speech in Los Dos Mundos Spaniards considered Rizal as a filibustero. LITERARY ACTIVITY 1884-1886 GOVANTES Most active campaigner for reforms he publish the Los Dos Mundos Los dos Mundos - conference on the commercial potentialities of the Philippines * outlined a series of proposals (economic, administrative, government reforms) * reforms; abolition of censorship and establish of at least limited parliamentary representation (Filipinos nationalist would work for during the next ten years)
El Liberal - Used the pseudonym P. Dro - Writings are reformist rather than proper nationalist - Exudes nationalism of Rizal Filipino news paper - El Globo- El Imparcial- El Liberal Lopez Jaena passionate not only in his defenses of the Filipino, and open attacks both on friars and peninsula officials Philippine institution finally appeared in November 1884,( incomplete) In October he publish a biography of Juan Luna in Los dos Mundo ( firing the broadside against the control education in the Philippines and friars) Los dos Mundo being seized- Lopez Jaena depending Govates and Lete
In 1885, Rizal left Spain for Paris and later Germany
-began work on his first political novel - he wrote one or two articles for the Republican newspaper La Publicadad of Barcelona Pedro Paterno In 1855 also appeared Pedro Paterno - Ninay: Costumbres Filipinas novel
