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...rose out of the Spanish conquista in the 16th century; the impact of the Baroque and the growth of a Mexican (as distinct from imported Spanish) artistic consciousness in the 17th century; and so on to the major Mexican artists of the early 20th century, Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Kahlo and Rufino Tamayo. (Artists born after 1910 are not included.) Wisely, the Met sells the catalog at the end of the show, not the beginning. Packed with illustrations, scholarly essays and an introduction by the great Mexican writer Octavio Paz, it weighs just under...
...Swaggart's celebrity in Latin America is largely the creation of television. His hour-long weekly show is broadcast by 511 Latin American stations and draws more viewers than the program of any other U.S.-based TV evangelist. Among his devotees in San Jose was Rosario Orozco, 32, who said she often wakes up feeling sad, "but then the Lord tells me to turn on Jimmy Swaggart, and suddenly everything in life is precious." Swaggart is not only an orator whose incendiary style appeals to Latin Americans but a creditable gospel singer with a lively band. His proficient road crew...
...Victor Orozco Briggs, Texas...
...work, not out of some empty eclecticism (which is what our "expressionists" give us today) but in the belief that cultural synthesis might redeem us all. How can one follow this show, from its first choked and turbulent exercises, through the grapplings with chosen masters (Picasso, Masson, Miró, Orozco) in the "totemic" and "archetypal" paintings of the 1940s, into the air and vastness of Lavender Mist or Autumn Rhythm, without seeing that Pollock's career was one of the few great models of integrating search that our fragmented culture can offer...
Many of the artists follow Mexican Muralist José Clemente Orozco's dictum that a mural is not a decorative piece but a screaming public message. In East Los, the message that comes through is pride in the Chicano heritage. One series of 19 murals, called "The Story of Our Struggle," show's events from Mexico's loss of the Southwest in 1848 to a present-day farm unionist cutting the chains that bind a fallen comrade. So well does the series trace the rise of chicanismo that elementary school classes are brought to study the murals...