UP Oblation Plagiarism Issue
Alleged "UP Oblation" Plagiarism We are fascinated by the Oblation concrete statue of the Filipino Artist Guillermo E. Tolentino whenever we went to the University of the Philippines, this masculine icon that symbolizes selfless offering of oneself had engrossed all people for countless of years. But while his feminine accomplice, faces controversy and disputation of the artist’s work for its first exhibition to the public. The Filipino artist Ferdinand Cacnio’s the “UPLift” sculpture, or also known as the “Female Oblation”, had 2,000 shares, over 12,000 reactions and negative comments on social media for the alleged plagiarism of the work of the Dutch artist Elisabeth Stienstra’s “The Virgins of Apeldoorn”, first accused by a netizen. The controversy started on June 24, Sunday, after the Filipino artist Cacnio posted on his Facebook account on June 23, a netizen posted a photo of Cacnio’s “UPLift” sculpture and its similarity to