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José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican caricaturist [1] and painter, who specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others.
The Epic of American Civilization is a mural by the social realist painter José Clemente Orozco.It is located in the basement reading room of the Baker Memorial Library on the campus of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Another Mexican artist, José Clemente Orozco "scorned this type of imagery as romanticizing poverty and backwardness; nevertheless, in their very idealization, these images reassured viewers in Mexico and abroad that the peasants behind the Revolution were actually contained and content." [19]
The museum has permanent and temporary art and archeological exhibitions in addition to the many murals painted on its walls by José Clemente Orozco, Fernando Leal, Diego Rivera, and others. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The complex is located between San Ildefonso Street and Justo Sierra Street in the historic center of Mexico City .
Other murals and artworks by José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros; Casa Zapata murals at Stanford University; 6th St. and Westlake street mural in Los Angeles, California; José Guadalupe Posada, political printmaker and engraver; La Revolución, controversial feminized painting of Zapata produced by Fabián Cháirez in 2014. [4] [5]
Members and supporters of the Zapatista indigenous rebel movement celebrated the 30th anniversary of their brief armed uprising in southern Mexico on Monday even as their social base erodes and ...
The muralist movement reached its height in the 1930s with four main protagonists: Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco, and Fernando Leal. It is the most studied part of Mexico's art history.
Zapatista(s) may refer to: Liberation Army of the South, a guerrilla force led by Emiliano Zapata in the Mexican Revolution 1911–1920 Zapatismo, the armed movement ...