LESSON NO.

6 TITLE: WORKS OF JUAN LUNA AND FERNANDO

AMORSOLO
Description:
The lesson is richly involved in the study of arts also incorporates fields like social
history, aesthetics, economics, politics, and anthropology. To these, it adds a
particular attention to critical looking, building core skills in analyzing how visual
representation of concrete scenario and events on the life of people in a specific
period in the past. Wherein this Historical painting depicts the realistic situations
and scenario of the lives of the people and are instrumental to the visualization of
the reality which stand equally with texts, photos, caricatures, and films.
 Content:
Juan Luna (1857 – 1899) is regarded for work done in the manner of the Spanish,
Italian and French academies of his time, Luna painted literary and historical
scenes, some with an underscore of political commentary. His allegorical works
were inspired with classical balance, and often showed figures in theatrical poses.
He is best known for impressive rendition of classical subjects in his academic
works. These works include historical scenes and portraiture, however
subsequently he turned to realism depicting social inequalities. In this lesson, the
“Spoliarium” and “The Parisian Life” are Luna’s presented for the analysis of the
students.

SPOLIARIUM 19TH Century – Juan Luna

—   a painting by Filipino artist Juan Luna.
—  he painting was submitted by Luna to the Exposición Nacional de Bellas
Artes in 1884 in Madrid, where it garnered the first gold medal (out of three).
—  In 1886, it was sold to the Diputación Provincial de Barcelona for 20,000
pesetas.
—   It currently hangs in the main gallery at the ground floor of the National
Museum of the Philippines.

"The Parisian Life" painting is also known as Interior d’Un Café or "Inside a

Café", even titled in some books as "The Maid" and "Un Coquette" or literally
someone who is one step lower than prostitute painted by Juan Luna. He is known
to use prostitutes as models in his painting sessions for a very obvious reason -
they're paid cheap. In 1904 at the World Fair’s Saint Louis Exposition in the
United States, this painting won Silver Medal.