Word: orozco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. José Clemente Orozco, 65, one of the Big Three (with Rivera and Siqueiros) of Mexican art; after a heart attack; in Mexico City. In his youth, a firecracker blew off his left hand and seriously damaged his sight, but intense, contentious "El Abrojo" (the spiny cactus) managed to win fame as a mural painter...
Diego Rivera with an artist of worldwide range like Mexico's Orozco [TIME, Feb. 24, 1947]. In him is the truth, the life, the significance and magic spell of his land...
...They might have destroyed it except that: 1) the hotel is government-owned and its murals cannot be altered without approval of the three-man committee on mural paintings; 2) the committee consists of Siqueiros, Orozco and Rivera...
Joyful Reverence. Full of the idea of painting "for the millions," Rivera hastened home from Paris in 1921 and joined forces with two other revolutionaries who were to make Mexican art history: Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco. Together they formed a government-backed syndicate of artists, published a manifesto announcing their intention "to socialize artistic expression." To the syndicate that meant ditching easel painting and going to work on walls-wherever they could find a big, challenging bare...
...chief contribution that the Mexican muralists (Orozco, Siqueiros and Rivera) made to modern art, Chariot thinks, was in emphasizing "communal" painting, simple and clear in theme, instead of individual expression. "Perhaps," he says, "Mexico will point Europe back to the forgotten way." In Colorado, Charlot has put his own students to work on a gigantic fresco of the fall of Jericho, to "keep them, out of mischief for months at a time, and help them understand that teamwork is important and that originality is not all-important...