Word: orozco
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...results drew encouraging praise from Mexico's famed Jose Clemente Orozco. Diego Rivera was even more interested. Frida had known him since childhood, and when he divorced his second wife, they embarked on a violent courtship. Both were temperamental and noisy Communists; Frida proudly points out that she has never been expelled from the party (as Diego was). Much of the time since their marriage in 1929, Frida spent in & out of hospitals. But she never stopped painting, in a style that bears only a suggestion of Diego's technique...
...Mexican government is often as generous to its artists as were the city-states of Renaissance Florence and Venice. Mexico's Big Three -David Siqueiros, Diego Rivera and the late José Orozco -have covered acres of wall space with murals commissioned by the state. A fourth native son of genius, Rufino Tamayo, was long kept out in the cold by his colleagues, because his art smacked of Paris and his politics failed to partake of Marx. Wallflower Tamayo was only recently invited to paint a muralin Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts. His response...
What makes Lawrence so good is the simple fact that he is his own man-a rare thing for an artist, even in the U.S. and in the 20th century. His painting ideas are fresh-minted, borrowed from nobody (with the possible and rare exception of Orozco). He never tries to buy attention with smooth-rubbed clichés. He suppresses every detail that fails to contribute to the immediate impact of his pictures, makes every gesture count...
Senora de Orozco, widow of the late Mexican painter Jose Clemente Orozco, opened an exhibition containing over 200 of the noted artist's works yesterday at the Fogg Museum...
John C. Coolidge, Director of Fogg Museum, welcomed the guests and introduced the speakers; James S. Plaut, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Which is also showing Orozco's works; Antonio G. Cardenas, Consul-general of Mexico in New York City; and Dr. McKinley Helm of Brookline...