Mario Orozco Rivera

Mario Orozco Rivera (born January 19, 1930 in Mexico City , † November 20, 1998 ) was a Mexican painter. His son is the artist Gabriel Orozco .

life and work

Orozco Rivera studied from 1952 at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda" , among others with Manuel Rodríguez Lozano and Carlos Orozco Romero . From 1956 he lectured as a master of painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana and in 1957 a member of the Frente Nacional de Artes Plásticas (FNAP). From 1961 to 1964 he had a teaching position at the Universidad Veracruzana , where he founded the training workshop for fine arts and painted several murals there . In 1964 David Alfaro Siqueiros offered him the position of deputy director of his artist workshop in Cuernavaca . Here he painted more murals in the Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros .

Orozco Rivera exhibited his pictures in several solo and group exhibitions and has received several awards at home and abroad. For many years he was a member of the Partido Comunista Mexicano and then a member of the Partido Socialista Unificado de México . His friends also included Rafael López Jiménez and Víctor Jara .

literature

• Macgregor, Joaquín S .: Mario Orozco Rivera, muralista / Joaquín S. Macgregor , In: La palabra y el hombre. , Xalapa, edition. 6 (1962), No. 24, pp. 605-619.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Orozco Rivera, Mario ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), Tecnológico de Monterrey. 
2. ↑ Yanireth Israde: Murió Mario Orozco Rivera, Discípulo de Siqueiros (Spanish), obituary in La Jornada , UNAM, November 21, 1998th