Word: orozco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heady old days of the Mexican Revolution, stormy Communist Painter David Alfaro Siqueiros used to complain loudly that he was always the fall guy for his comrades: "Let Orozco draw a strong cartoon; Siqueiros was arrested." With the death of Orozco in 1949 and then Diego Rivera in 1958, Siqueiros at 63 is today the sole survivor of the Big Three. Living quietly in his Mexico City mansion with his wife Angelica, downing highballs of unproletarian Scotch (at $18 a fifth), Siqueiros has been turning out portraits at top prices, putting up new murals in hospitals, generally enjoying his reputation...
Nearly ten years after his death, Mexico's José Clemente Orozco is still one of the world's most debated artists. Last week San Antonio's McNay Institute was staging a major retrospective of his art, expressly designed to bear out the catalogue's contention that "Orozco is the major painter of our time, that he, rather than European painting of the same half-century, is the primary heir and vehicle of the great humanistic tradition of the Renaissance...
Since his major works are murals in Mexico, not even the 51 assembled pictures could give the dimensions of Orozco's power, bitterness and weight, or of the clumsiness, coarseness and obviousness that make him so controversial. One perceptive critic recently returned from looking at the frescoes has joined Orozco's most fervent disciples. In his new book, Mexican Journal (Devin-Adair; $6), Selden Rodman writes that "if there was any doubt in my mind that Orozco was the great artist of our age, it has vanished." But Rodman quotes a number of the master's countrymen...
Genius is not normal, and it stands exposed to every wind that blows. On some winds Orozco scattered seeds of hate; on others he scattered seeds of love and hope. But even as the winds howl, it is clear that they swirl about an artist who was mountainous...
...Mateos, 48. It was a ceremony worthy of the effort. The setting was Mexico City's famed Palacio de Bellas Artes, an Italianate pile of marble as remote from today's Mexico as an igloo, despite murals by the famed Big Four of Mexican art: Rivera, Siqueiros, Orozco and Tamayo. As López Mateos entered, the 3,000 guests, including U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, stood and cheered the President-elect's march to the stage...