Jose Clemente Orozco

Mural de Hidalgo

José Clemente Orozco (Ciudad Guzmán 1883 - Mexico City 1949) was a Mexican Social Realist Muralist painter. Along with David Alfaro Siqueiros and Diego Rivera, Orozco was one of the most important artists in the Mexican mural movement. ^[1]

Between 1936 and 1939, Orozco painted the celebrated frescos: "The People and Its Leaders" and "Miguel Hidalgo". His best frescos are at the Guadalajara's Hospicio Cabañas, showing a historical panorama of Mexico. In 1948, he painted a huge portrait, "Juárez Reborn". Throughout his career, Orozco combined painting with drawing and lithography. With his political views, he was a superb cartoonist. As Rivera and Siqueiros, politically he was a leftist.

Social Realism painting is focused on social issues.

Artistically we admired Orozco's ability to invest his figures with tremendous emotion and anatomical volume by means of his non-academic treatment of the human figure. ^[2]

Mural at Baker Library, Dartmouth College.

• Painting Schools
• Mexican Painters
• Mexican Painting
• Mexican Painting Masterpieces

• THE DRAMA OF JOSE CLEMENTE OROZCO
• El Muralismo Mexicano In Spanish.
• Jose Clemente Orozco ARTCYCLOPEDIA.
• Murales por Jose Clemente Orozco - El Instituto Cultural Cabañas In Spanish.
• The Epic of American Civilization

1. ↑ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
2. ↑ Orozco and Anglo-America by Sol Levenson