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Jose Clemente Orozco, 1883-1949
Born Jalisco, Mexico
Together with Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco was a member of "Los tres grandes," who through their monumental mural paintings in Mexican government buildings pioneered the first modern public art movement of the Americas. Orozco started his artistic career as a caricaturist for newspapers and an army illustrator during the Mexican Revolutionary War (1910–20). Early on, he had developed an aesthetic and subject matter that were dramatic, often violent, and always committed to human values.
In the wake of the Great Depression and the emergence of the New Deal, Mexican Muralism became a model for democratic, uplifting art that informed the work of such American artists as Ben Shahn. Orozco's best-known U.S. commissions include Prometheus at Pomona College, California, and the mural cycle The Epic of American Civilization at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.
Aline Fruhauf, 1933 |