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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...
...exhibition confirms what Orozco himself maintained: that his best work was in his drawings and murals. He considered his oil paintings mediocre, turned them out mainly to make money. By contrast, when his heart was involved, he worked for a pittance. He got $4 a day while painting the 13,000-sq.-ft. ceiling mural in the Hospicio Cabanas at Guadalajara. Today this allegorical representation of the elements ranks as his masterpiece...
...Epitaph Written. In his day, Orozco was acclaimed for what were considered his uniquely Mexican qualities. He drew his subject matter from Aztec, Mayan and Toltec mythology, the history of the Spanish conquest and the 1910 Revolution. His colors are violent and rough, like those of the native Indian pottery and fabric designs. His figures are powerful, primordial and violent; their every thrust calls out for social justice...
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...