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Sep 19, 2007 · September 19, 2007. The life of Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949), a life filled with drama, adversity, and triumph, is one of the great stories of the modern era. Explore his...
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- Who Was José Clemente Orozco?
- Early Life
- Teenage Years and Injury
- Beginning of Career and First Solo Exhibition
- Paintings: 'The People and Its Leaders' and 'Dive Bomber'
- Death
Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco created impressive, realistic paintings. A product of the Mexican Revolution, he overcame poverty and eventually traveled to the United States and Europe to paint frescos for major institutions. A man of unparalleled vision, as well as striking contradiction, he died of heart failure at age 65.
Born in Mexico in 1883, Orozco was raised in Zapotlán el Grande, a small city in Mexico’s southwestern region of Jalisco. When he was still a young boy, Orozco’s parents moved to Mexico City in hopes of making a better life for their three children. His father, Ireneo, was a businessman, and his mother, Maria Rosa, worked as a homemaker and sometim...
At age 15, Orozco left the city and traveled to the countryside. His parents sent him away to study agricultural engineering, a profession he had very little interest in pursuing. While at school, he contracted rheumatic fever. His father died of typhus soon after he returned home. Perhaps Orozco finally felt free to pursue his true passion, becaus...
For the next several years, Orozco scraped by, working for a time as a caricaturist for an independent, oppositional newspaper. Even after he finally landed his first solo exhibition, titled “The House of Tears,” a glimpse at the lives of the women working in the city’s red-light district, Orozco found himself painting Kewpie dolls to pay the rent....
In 1934, Orozco returned to his wife and country. Now established and highly respected, he was invited to paint in the Government Palace in Guadalajara. The main fresco found in its vaulted ceilings is titled The People and Its Leaders. Orozco, now in his mid-fifties, then painted what would become considered a masterpiece, the frescos found inside...
In the fall of 1949, Orozco completed his last fresco. On September 7, he died in his sleep of heart failure at the age of 65. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, he was hailed as a master of the human condition, an artist bold enough to cut through the lies a nation tells its people. As Orozco insisted, “Painting…it persuades the heart.”
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The final mural by Orozco (1883-1949) was both brilliant and one of his only positive portrayals of government; it shows the revolutionary hero Miguel Hidalgo issuing an edict to end slavery in...
Dec 6, 2023 · Celebrating the Mexican people’s potential to craft the nation’s history was a key theme in Mexican muralism, a movement led by Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, and José Clemente Orozco —known as Los tres grandes. Between the 1920s and 1950s, they cultivated a style that defined Mexican identity following the Revolution.
National Prize for Arts and Sciences. José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican caricaturist [1] and painter, who specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others. Orozco was the most complex of the Mexican ...
Jul 5, 2023 · José Clemente Orozco, together with Siqueiros and Rivera, restored the Italian Renaissance fresco painting tradition with large-scale murals intended to attract a larger audience. Their aim was to establish a more democratic art form, in other words, to make their work – with its post-Mexican Revolution, patriotic subjects – accessible to ...
