José Clemente Orozco

Murales "Omnisciencia", 1925, Mexico City.

José Clemente Orozco (born November 23, 1883 in Ciudad Guzmán , † September 7, 1949 in Mexico City ) is considered the founder of contemporary Mexican painting . He is one of the main exponents of muralism and, along with David Alfaro Siqueiros and Diego Rivera, belongs to the so-called Los Tres Grandes ("The Big Three").

His frescoes show a certain closeness to caricature (especially in the derision of his oppressors), but they are not as strongly influenced by a revolutionary spirit as the works of his two comrades-in-arms. His works are in many important collections, e. B. Los Angeles County Museum of Art , Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City), Nagoya City Art Museum, and Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico City).

Life

According to his own statements, the Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada , whom he knew in his youth, had a strong influence on him. During his childhood, Orozco lost his left hand in a fireworks accident.

Commissioned by the New School for Social Research in New York, Orozco designed several walls in a sober international-style building at 66 West 12th Street in Manhattan, which were completed for its opening in January 1931. The subjects of the picture are: Science, Labor and Art , as well as A Call for Revolution and Struggle in the Orient / Struggle in the Occident and Table of Universal Brotherhood , and finally Homecoming of the Worker of the New Day .

In 1943 he was elected as an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Web links

Commons : José Clemente Orozco - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about José Clemente Orozco in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin

Individual evidence

↑ Die kleine Enzyklopädie , Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich 1950, Volume 2, p. 294.
^ ^A ^b Glenn Palmer-Smith, Joshua McHugh, préface de Graydon Carter: Les plus belles fresques de New York . Ed .: Robb Pearlman. Éditions Gallimard, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-07-014685-7 , pp. 57 ff . (Original edition: Murals of New York City . Rizzoli International Publications, New York 2013; translated by Alain Bories).
↑ Honorary Members: José Clemente Orozco. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 18, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Orozco, José Clemente
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Founder of contemporary Mexican painting
DATE OF BIRTH	November 23, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ciudad Guzmán
DATE OF DEATH	September 7, 1949
Place of death	Mexico city

[1] Die kleine Enzyklopädie , Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich 1950, Volume 2, p. 294.

[:0-2] A ^b Glenn Palmer-Smith, Joshua McHugh, préface de Graydon Carter: Les plus belles fresques de New York . Ed .: Robb Pearlman. Éditions Gallimard, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-07-014685-7 , pp. 57 ff . (Original edition: Murals of New York City . Rizzoli International Publications, New York 2013; translated by Alain Bories).

[3] Honorary Members: José Clemente Orozco. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 18, 2019 .