Source: WTL photograph© at the Special Exhibition of "Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism 1910 - 1950," at the Philadelphia Art Museum, December 13, 2016.
Image: "The Rape" (1926-27) by José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949). Black ink wash over graphite on woven paper.
Comments: In the 1920s, along with his paintings and murals, Orozco produced a series of ink drawings and prints that returned to the violence of the Mexican Revolution (1910-20). This drawing and the one on the next page are examples of such denunciations of war. In this sense, while using a more modern drawing style, they remind one of Francisco Goya's (1746-1828) haunting engravings of the Disasters of War (1810-20), illustrating horrific events during the so-called Peninsular War (1814-20), that is, the Spanish uprising against the French invasion of 1808.
For other paintings by Orozco, see: => #11; => #12; and => #14.
Humanities Question: Comment on a few elements in this drawing that give it its dramatic and denunciatory qualities.