Muralistas (1)


Source: WTL digital photograph in front of the Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Palace), Mexico City. (I am sorry about the poor quality of this photo; you know, hand-help digital camera, no flash allowed, poor light.)
Mural: José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) was one of Mexico's great muralists. He was also a painter in the social realist school (mid-20th century). He was active in leftist politics, and he supported activism and organization by peasants and workers. As such, he helped create the "Mexican Mural Renaissance"along with Diego Rivera, Juan O'Gorman, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
Comments: As you seen in this mural, Orozco favored scenes of human suffering in a manner that was more exaggerated and somewhat less realistic than Rivera's focus on the same theme. In fact, he purposely aimed to shock the viewer of his art, and his works seem more exaggerated and less "realistic," perhaps partly symbolistic or surrealistic tthan those by Rivera. Orozco executed murals throughout Mexico and in various American cities including a couple of American colleges. The list of places is fairly long: Clarement, California, Guadalajara, Hanover, New Hamphsire, New York City, and Jalisco, Mexico City, Michoacán, and Orizaba in Mexico.
Additional mural by Orozco: see => Mexico City, #10c.