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...Irish mining engineer and a Mexican-Irish mother, O'Gorman was struck as a youth by the extraordinary artistic renaissance which produced the great murals of Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros. He came out of architecture school in 1927 temporarily endowed, like his contemporaries, with an edifice complex, functional phase. Hired by the Mexican government in 1932 to build schools in the capital, the young designer created box after concrete box, and in three years he studded the city with enough small schools to provide classrooms for 40,000 students. But finally O'Gorman got fed up with...
...Rufino Tamayo, the Big Fourth of Mexico's famed artistic quadrumvirate (the others: Orozco, Rivera and Siqueiros), 1953 was a fat year. In twelve months crowded with work and honor, Tamayo completed two huge murals in Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes, painted a monumental El Hombre for the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, and won a first prize of more than $5,000 for a roomful of paintings in Sao Paulo's biennial exhibition. He also found time to paint more than a dozen smaller pictures. Last week 17 of his new canvases went...
...father of Mexican independence, Hidalgo was shot by a firing squad in 1811 after leading a revolt against Spain, and since then every artist worth his salt has honored him with a portrait. Diego Rivera has shown Hidalgo's brooding visage in half a dozen murals; Jose Clemente Orozco depicted him with a flaming torch of liberty and counted the painting among his greatest works. The last of the big three to tackle Hidalgo is David Alfaro Siqueiros, who was commissioned by San Nicolas University in Morelia to paint a mural for a celebration commemorating the 200th anniversary...
...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...