Word: orozco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About all the painting most strictly modern architects want in their buildings can be done by a house painter. This fact greatly grieves the young school of muralists who have found their inspiration in Rivera and Orozco, their opportunity under WPA. Lately, however, a few architects and a few painters have had a happy, conciliatory thought. If modern architecture relies on the beauty of abstract forms, why should it not employ, for certain chaste effects, the painting of pure abstractionists...
...want to get oil out of Mexico are having a tougher & tougher time. Those who want to see or buy Mexican art are having it easier & easier. In San Francisco, Detroit, Manhattan and Hanover, N. H., distinguished murals have been painted by Artists Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. Into Mexico City, where there are more & better Mexican paintings, the Inter-American Highway running south from Laredo, Tex., has piped thousands of U. S. tourists since its opening last year. Last week important shows in three U. S. cities gave art followers a fresh triangulation on Mexican...
...look at Mexican art in a traveling show sent by the American Federation of Arts seven years ago. Last week another comprehensive, more up-to-date traveling show on its first stop in Chicago gave Midwestern art followers an idea of where Mexican artists are going. New work by Orozco was not included because that powerful artist is busy on a mural in Guadalajara. Consensus among the discerning was that without him the flame of revolutionary art below the Rio Grande looked somewhat pale...
...among his 20 tempera paintings and score of gouaches (opaque water colors) there were several which allowed spectators not only to see poverty but to see into it. Several others showed a spirit and skill at caricature which located Jules below but in line with Rivera, Orozco, Grosz and other effective satirists of social horrors...
...subjects in local streets, parks, barrooms, and until the generation of Curry, Wood and Benton had done likewise in the farm and cattle country. The possibility of integrating this material in wall designs was driven home by Mexico's two great muralists, Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. Missouri's Benton completed his first murals in Manhattan's New School for Social Research in 1930 (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931) and a movement of great and wild vitality was in full swing. By the time Orozco finished his famed, furious panels in Dartmouth's unoffending library...