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Lesson 8
ARTWORKS

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
1. Analyze artworks as sources of historical data
2. Examine the perspectives of these artworks
3. Create your own artwork that will describe the
country's current socio-economic or socio-political
conditions

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Illustrations, drawings, and photographs play a large part in

the study of history. These sources have stories to tell and enable
us to distinguish details that give us insights into something
are also a record of the past useful
for
beyond the texts. They
social conditions
historians. Photographs and illustrations reflect
indicate the situations
of historical realities and everyday life and
on the other hand, are
of past societies. Editorial cartoons,
propaganda in the historical era
sOurces of political expression or

in which they came out.

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Editorial Cartoons
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FIGURE 11. El Candidato
Longino
from the July 27, 1907 issue of the
cartoon
The satirical
a weekly satirical magazine
Lipang-Kalabaw (Lipa -Kalabaw),
Assembly candidate
publishedin Manila, shows Philippine
Roman centurion Longinus delivering
Dominador Gomez as the
freedom fighters (from left)
to the crucified
the final spear blow Lucio
Julian Montalan, and
Macario Sakay, Francisco Carreon, for banditry by the
all sentenced to death
de Vega, who were
in the surrender
Gomez was instrumental
American government. arrested
men but the
latter w e r e subsequently
of Sakay and his Gomez
of safe conduct by the
government.
in spite of believed that
assurances
of Sakay and many
blamed for the death
was later Americans.
rebels to the
he betrayed the Filipino
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FIGURE 12. Popular Manifestation in Honor of the
Southern District of Manila,
Triumphant Candidate of the
Fernando Ma. Guerrero, 11th of
August, 1907
A cartoon from the
magazine Lipang-Kalabaw depicts the
festivity parade of
or
Filipinos
popular candidate, celebrating the election of their
Fernando Ma.
Philippine Assembly held that month.Guerrero,
The
who ran for the
however, had dire results. momentous occasion,
Americans who witnessed the event
were bothered by the massive show of
patriots and the support by Filipino
banners and display singular of the American
flag amidst
Philippine flags.
Irked by the
passed on
patriotic display, the Philippine Commission
the
August 23, 1907, Act No. 1696 otherwise known
Flag Law, which banned the as
Tlag and other public display of the Philippine
patriotic banners. When the
opened at the Manila Philippine Assembly
American flag could beGrand Opera House in September, only the
Philippine legislative body.seen-an ironic display for otherwise an
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paintings, or photographs of
cartoons,
history?
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of the succeeding paintinoe
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