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José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican caricaturist and painter, who specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others.
José Clemente Orozco (born Nov. 23, 1883, Ciudad Guzmán, Mex.—died Sept. 7, 1949, Mexico City) was a Mexican painter, considered the most important 20th-century muralist to work in fresco.
Apr 2, 2014 · José Clemente Orozco was a painter who helped lead the revival of Mexican mural painting in the 1920s. His works are complex and often tragic.
The Mexican painter José Clemente Orozco is best known for his political murals initiating Mexican Muralism – a movement that began in the 1920s intending to unite the country after the Mexican Revolution.
"José Clemente Orozco, along with the popular engraver, Jose Guadalupe Posada, is the greatest artist, whose work expresses genuinely the character and the spirit of the people of the City of Mexico.
Part of the “Big Three,” which also included Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco was one of the leading muralists of the second half of the 20th century in Mexico.
José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican caricaturist and painter, who specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others.
