Word: orozco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jose Clemente Orozco started as a caricaturist. Early he gained a reputation for diabolical satire and was called the 'Mexican Goya. In the Mexican National Academy he studied painting and drew rude portraits of his masters. They told him he could not draw and sent him away. After this he worked as a newspaper artist, followed a regiment in the Carranza-Villa revolution. As a syndicate worker, he covered patio walls, stairways and crypts with enormous frescoes of a beardless Christ bearing a great cross, Saint Francis of Assisi bowing to kiss a leper, caricatures of bourgeoise ladies and their...
...Painter Orozco is almost a pure Spaniard. He dresses like a U. S. druggist, wears thick glasses, a huge mustache. In boyhood his left hand was blown off by a firecracker. Critics have used him as a butt for their most malicious onslaughts, attributing to him the "soul of an old prostitute," finding every vice in his drawings. Not only in Mexico has he been harassed. Once he tried to cross the border with a batch of drawings and was stopped by U. S. customs officials. They decided that the drawings were obscene and destroyed over a hundred...