Word: orozco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carnation' or the k out of 'Milk.' ") On the proceeds of the sale of five local-color paintings he went off to Mexico, fell in love with the work of Orozco, Rivera and Tamayo ("There was no talk of what could sell...
...Indian named Oswaldo Guayasamin (pronounced guy-yah-sah-meait, and meaning, in Inca. "white bird flying"), it was as powerful as any painting to come out of South America in modern times. Guayasamin, 35, once studied with Mexico's late master of mordantly bitter painting, José Clemente Orozco. He has a similar social consciousness, amounting to aching rage at man's inhumanities, and a similar range of techniques, from abstraction to hammer-blunt realism...
After months of preparations, he was finally ready to begin his series of murals for the library. Prominent visitors, alumni, officials students, and townspeople watched attentively from the long basement study hall. Orozco carefully prepared his colors and began to paint. But the deft strokes of the master muralist began to trickle down the smooth plaster wall. The crowd snickered; Orozco fumed...
After the onlookers dispersed, Orozco discovered the source of his embarrassment. A few days earlier, the University's plasterer--eager to contribute his best toward the success of the mural--had installed what be described as "the best water-proof plaster in the world...
Eventually Orozco got his paint-holding plaster and by 1934 Dartmouth got its far-famed murals. These freezes, which cover over three thousand square feet of wall space, depict the Aztec legend of Quetsalcoti, the Great White Father both modern counterpart...