Word: orozco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over art and politics were forgotten. Triple-chinned Diego Rivera's habitual garrulity was reduced to a murmured "magnifico, magnifico" as he passed from picture to picture. Fiery David Alfaro Siqueiros, a spotlight lover himself, knew well whose turn it was this night. He kept drawing Jose Clemente Orozco back into the limelight each time the shy, shabby little one-armed man tried to shuffle off to a corner...
...Orozco's retrospective show, with its hundreds of drawings, paintings and photographs of his famed murals, was not only a tribute to him, but a 40-year lesson in art, and the discipline that goes into its creation...
Mexico's aging "Big Three"-Orozco, Siqueiros and Rivera-have plastered miles of Mexican walls with bayonets, clenched fists, streaming banners and broken chains. That kind of thing is no longer up-to-date. Last week Rufino Tamayo, 47, the most important of Mexico's "younger" painters, opened a one-man show in Manhattan. Revolutionary violence is not his game; he paints the classless society of his own imagination...
Wizened Old Master Orozco contributed a twisted mass of bayonets and struggling bodies entitled The Trench, which looked like a great many he had done before. (His best-known Trench was painted in 1923.) Fat, fast-talking Old Master Diego Rivera, who can always be counted on for a surprise, was surprisingly absent. He had been appointed a juror, and resigned at the last minute because "too little attention is given to architecture. I believe architecture is the most important of all the plastic arts. And second, I think too much prominence is given to the older artists...
...became a lieutenant in the Battalón Mama, a children's army which did yeoman service for liberal Venustiano Carranza in his 1913 Constitutionalist uprising. In 1922 he wrote an art manifesto which his two fellow revolutionists of Mexico's Big Three in painting, Rivera and Orozco, both signed. Its thesis: painting is social propaganda and should have nothing to do with ivory tower esthetes or private collectors. Green-eyed, eagle-beaked Siqueiros stayed violent. He had spent most of his life in jail or exile, fought wars and painted walls from Guadalajara, Spain to Chili...