José Clemente Orozco was born in Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico on Nov. 23, 1883, he was a Mexican painter. He specialized in political murals that established the
Mexican Mural Renaissance. He was the most complex of the Mexican muralists. Orozco was influenced by symbolism, he was a genre painter and lithographer. He painted murals in Mexico City, Guadalajara, and states in the United States. His work is complex and often tragic. At the age of 15 he was sent away to study agricultural engineering.
When his father died he began to go to art classes at San Carlos academy. He supported his mother by working two small jobs as an architectural firm and later he worked as a post-mortem painter. He left his family and went to the united states in
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The contributions include Dive Bomber and Tank and both of them are impending of the Second World War. He was invited to paint in the government palace. One of his murals was the Epic of the American Civilization and his mural painting was housed in Dartmouth College, it took José two years to finish the mural. He painted the panorama of Mexico’s history is known as the Sistine Chapel of the Americas. Orozco’s frescos are found in Guadajara’s Hospicio Cabana’s, a unesco world heritage site and an old hospital complex. His illustrations show the lives and the struggles of pheasants and working-class people. Orozco’s paintings were differently reconized from Reviera’s and Siquerios because of the intensity and the focus on human suffering. He launched his first solo exhibition called “the house of tears” it was a glimpse of women working the red light district. To pay rent he had to paint kewpie dolls. He had his own struggles and it was not surprising that his paintings had social struggles. his idea was to paint murals on top of buildings for broadcasting his messages for his
Mexican Mural Renaissance. He was the most complex of the Mexican muralists. Orozco was influenced by symbolism, he was a genre painter and lithographer. He painted murals in Mexico City, Guadalajara, and states in the United States. His work is complex and often tragic. At the age of 15 he was sent away to study agricultural engineering.
When his father died he began to go to art classes at San Carlos academy. He supported his mother by working two small jobs as an architectural firm and later he worked as a post-mortem painter. He left his family and went to the united states in
1927 he …show more content…
The contributions include Dive Bomber and Tank and both of them are impending of the Second World War. He was invited to paint in the government palace. One of his murals was the Epic of the American Civilization and his mural painting was housed in Dartmouth College, it took José two years to finish the mural. He painted the panorama of Mexico’s history is known as the Sistine Chapel of the Americas. Orozco’s frescos are found in Guadajara’s Hospicio Cabana’s, a unesco world heritage site and an old hospital complex. His illustrations show the lives and the struggles of pheasants and working-class people. Orozco’s paintings were differently reconized from Reviera’s and Siquerios because of the intensity and the focus on human suffering. He launched his first solo exhibition called “the house of tears” it was a glimpse of women working the red light district. To pay rent he had to paint kewpie dolls. He had his own struggles and it was not surprising that his paintings had social struggles. his idea was to paint murals on top of buildings for broadcasting his messages for his