Word: orozco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were considered mere frilly decoration. In 1922 Mexico's Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors put the Mexican doctrine in writing, publicly repudiated "art for art's sake," and pledged themselves to paint murals "for the people." Among signers were Mexico's big three: Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros. Backed by the world's most art-conscious Government, they made a slambang success...
...Orozco, wintering in Manhattan (among other ambitions, he wants to "paint a snowfall"), boycotted both shows. Says he of the new Mexican easel painters: "The boys want to make money...
...kind of visual music which would be empty of pictorial meaning, but beautifully composed and rich in color harmonies. In 1937 Mérida got tired of pure abstractionism, and began combining it with vaguely recognizable shapes. Some critics now think The Big Three of Latin American art (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros) is really a foursome...
...Mexico, where art is taken almost as seriously as politics, removing Orozco's frescoes was out of the question. The Government arrived at a curious compromise. It commissioned U.S. Painter George Biddle (brother of ex-Attorney General Francis) to do another set of murals downstairs. Never before had a foreigner been invited to decorate a Mexican federal building...
...frescoes were finished. They showed, according to Biddle, the fertility of peace (a farmer with oxen, a mother with child) v. the horror of war (symbolized by skeletons and Franklin Roosevelt's quotation, "I hate war"). Although the murals were now open for inspection by his Mexican peers, Orozco had "no time" to see them, and Fellow Muralist Diego Rivera was "too busy" painting some of his own in the National Palace (just across the street) to take a look. Biddle felt sure that an attack on his murals which appeared in the newspaper Excelsior, under...