Word: orozco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Their lurid propaganda paintings (reaching Mexico's illiterate peons far more effectively than printed words) covered walls from Nuevo Leon to Yucatan and revived the art of fresco painting on a scale unequaled since the Italian Renaissance. The three: stocky, effusive Diego Rivera; grim, brooding José Clemente Orozco; pallid, green-eyed, conspiratorial David Alfaro Siquieros...
When, under the Cárdenas Government Mexico's revolution cooled and solidified individualistic Old Bolsheviks Rivera and Orozco cooled off too. While Rivera disgusted with Stalinist politics, marched off to the U. S., Orozco moped off to Guadalajara to work on an angry, pictorial dirge called "Humanity Now." Stalinist Siquieros, always active in party politics, let his organizing and speechmaking interfere with his painting, ended up four months ago in the pentitentiary, accused of complicity in last May's Trotsky assault. Meanwhile many of Mexico's lesser and younger painters, secure in Government jobs under...
Painters Merida and Cantú have done little fresco painting, but they are loud in their praise of Compatriots Rivera, Orozco, Siquieros. Says Merida: "They are three great painters, but the plastic expression of each is different. Diego makes politics in his pictures, Orozco is more poetic and lyric, Siquieros continues to be a great painter in spite of his politics." Cantú would have liked to do frescos, but says he got no commissions from the Mexican Government because he refused to paint Christ with the head of a donkey saints with the heads of pigs. "Although...
Last week the novelty was being tried at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. The painter was famed Mexican Muralist Jose Clemente Orozco. But in this case the mutual enjoyment was not a neat 50-50. The painter apparently did not like all those people looking over his shoulder...
Called Dive Bomber and Tank the mural was a starkly symbolic study of war's destructiveness, done in eleven colors ranging from lime white to vine black with four shades of red, which suggested explosions, storm clouds, dried blood. It had no political significance, said Orozco...