Murals of Jose Clemente Orozco - Guadalajara - Dec 2009

Murals of Jose Clemente Orozco

Guadalajara, Jalisco - December 2009

José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican social realist painter, who specialized in bold murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others. Orozco was the most complex of the Mexican muralists, fond of the theme of human suffering, but less realistic and more fascinated by machines than Rivera. Mostly influenced by Symbolism, he was also a genre painter and lithographer. Orozco was known for being a politically committed artist. He promoted the political causes of peasants and workers. Below mural of Father Miguel Hidalgo at the Government Palace, and the one at the Congres with the strong red cast, known today as "rojo Orosco". (panoramas)