Jose Clemente Orozco - Mexican Artists

Jose Clemente Orozco. Photo Credit: Edward WestonJose Clemente Orozco (born November 23, 1883, in Zapotlan el Grande (now Ciudad Guzman), Jalisco; died September 7, 1949, in Mexico City) was a famous Mexican social realist painter who was most specialized in bold murals.

Orozco was fond of the theme of the human vs. the mechanical. He was also a type painter and lithographer. He studied in Mexico City at the San Carlos Academy. With Diego Rivera, he was a head of the Mexican Renaissance. A significant distinction he had from Rivera was his vital view of the Mexican Revolution. While Diego was a bold, buoyant figure, touting the splendor of the revolution, Orozco was less at ease with the bloody toll the social movement was taking.

His other works comprise Prometheus (1930, at Pomona College, California), Zapata (1930), The Man of Fire (1939), and Christ Destroying His Cross (1943).

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