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About José Clemente Orozco

José Clemente Orozco was born on November 28, 1883, in Zapotlán el Grande (now Ciudad Guzmán), Jalisco, Mexico. He spent most of his artistic career living and working in Mexico City, New York City, and Guadalajara. In addition to Pomona College’s Prometheus, Orozco completed several monumental mural works at sites in Mexico and the United States, including the National Preparatory School in Mexico City; the New School for Social Research in New York City; the Baker-Berry Library at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire; the University of Guadalajara, the Government Palace, and the Hospicio Cabañas in Guadalajara; and the Gabino Ortíz Library in Jiquilpan, Michoacán, Mexico.

Orozco’s artistic training developed out of his experiences as a student in Mexico and as an illustrator for independent newspapers. After initially pursuing agronomy and cartography, he enrolled at the National Preparatory School in Mexico City to study architecture. Although he had previously studied drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos in 1890, he did not

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José Clemente Orozco

Mexican artist (1883–1949)

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 muralists, fond of the theme of human suffering, but less realistic and more fascinated by machines than Rivera. Mostly influenced by Symbolism, he was also a genre painter and lithographer. Between 1922 and 1948, Orozco painted murals in Mexico City, Orizaba, Claremont, California, New York City, Hanover, New Hampshire, Guadalajara, Jalisco, and Jiquilpan, Michoacán.

Life

José Clemente Orozco was born in 1883 in Zapotlán el Grande (now Ciudad Guzmán), Jalisco to Rosa de Flores Orozco. He was the oldest of his siblings. In 1890 Orozco became interested in art after moving to Mexico City.^[2] He married Margarita Valladares, and had three children. At the age of 21, Orozco lost his left hand while wor

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Summary of José Clemente Orozco

Of "Los tres grandes" (The Three Greats) of the Mexican Muralists, José Clemente Orozco, notoriously introverted and pessimistic, is in many ways the least revered. One possible explanation for that is that, unlike his colleagues, David Siqueiros and Diego Rivera, Orozco openly criticized both the Mexican Revolution and the post-Revolution government. What was perceived as standoffishness was, by all accounts, the profound despair of a person who felt deeply for others. Orozco's style is a mixture of conventional, Renaissance-period compositions and modeling, emotionally expressive, modernist abstraction, typically dark, ominous palettes, and forms and iconography deriving from the country's indigenous, pre-colonial, pre-European art. Orozco's skill as a cartoonist and print maker is detectable not only in his style but also in his ability to communicate a complex message -- generally, timely political subjects -- simply and on a massive scale. The Mexican Muralist movement as a whole asserted the importance of large-scale public art and Orozco's m