The Artistic Value of Juan Luna’s Spoliarium

Abstract

This paper discussed the art appreciation technique using Jerrold Levinson’s artistic value in arriving at the importance of aesthetic experience in artwork. Levinson claimed that artistic value covers aesthetic value and achievement value, specifically in analyzing Juan Luna’s Spoliarium, which is considered the largest painting in the Philippines and is proclaimed as a national heritage. This paper argued that art should have aesthetic engagement from the viewer’s point of view which would lead them to discover its artistic value. Thus, this paper used the contextualizing technique since it augments and strengthens artistic engagement. References Adler, Mortimer. Six Great Ideas. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1981. Descartes, Rene. The Philosophical Writings of Descartes (Volume II). Translated by John Cottingham, Robert, 1984. Goodman, Nelson. Languages of Arts. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1968. Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. Translated by Norman Kemp Smith: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1929. Levison, Jerrold. Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. _____________ Contemplating Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. _____________ Aesthetic Pursuits. United States of America: Oxford University Press, 2016. Luna, Juan. Spolarium. National Museum of the Philippines, 1884. Sporre, Dennis. Perceiving the Arts, 8th ed. United States of America: Prentice Hall, 2006. Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch. New York: Cambridge University Press. Tolstoy, Leo. What is Art? Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky. New York: Penguin Group, 1995. Wright, Susan. The Art, Young Children, and Learning. United States of America: Pearson Education Inc., 2003. www.flickr.com/photos/43184028@N02/440796048 29 June 2022.

Keywords

• Philosophy of Art
• Aesthetics
• Spoliarium
• Politics
• Culture
• Levinson