Word: orozco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such was the bequest of José Clemente Orozco, and in his day his gigantic murals made him the most powerful of Mexico's Big Three.* For his contemporaries, Orozco's work caught the spirit of Mexico, bloodied and in ruins, emerging from eleven years of brutal class warfare triggered by the Revolution of 1910. They are all there in his paintings, the heroes of the revolution: Zapata, Pancho Villa, Carranza, and the armed peons marching off to war. Their faces are shrouded by their sombreros, or they are often seen from the back, the anonymous masses...
...Heart Involved. So completely has such painting gone out of fashion that no major exhibition of Orozco's work has been shown in the U.S. since 1953, four years after his death. But to show that he has not been forgotten, Huntington Hartford's Gallery of Modern Art is currently staging an exhibition of 200 of his paintings and drawings, many of them sketches for murals in Mexico...
...anarchism in Barcelona cafés, argued with Lenin in Lausanne, published an anticlerical newspaper with a young socialist named Benito Mussolini. When the fire of Mexico's revolution was lit in 1911, Dr. Atl returned home to kindle his country's intellectuals. Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros caught the blaze from him. Dr. Atl became Mexico's Fine Arts Minister, promptly shut down the Fine Arts Academy as too traditional. The plutonic painter, more than anyone, pointed Mexican art toward its folklore, its social fervor and its peppery expressionism...
Died. Gerardo Murillo (assumed name: Dr. Atl), 89, pioneer Mexican landscape and folk artist, who kindled the artistic fires in Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros; of a heart attack; in Mexico City...
MEXICO. The handsome pavilion is designed so that most of it can be viewed from couches and comfy basket chairs. From the ceiling sombreroed skeletons dangle drolly; paintings by Tamayo, Rivera, Velasco and Siqueiros are upstaged by a superb Orozco hung on the same wall a floor above the others. And outside the pavilion, the "Flying Eagles of Papantla" scale a 114-ft. pole four times a day and float back down to earth...