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...Muralist Orozco has two arms-but only one hand. When he was 15, he lost his left hand while playing with some gunpowder. He says: "It has never been a handicap...
...TIME, I read of José Clemente Orozco "flailing his arms like an orchestra conductor...
Like the Big Three of Mexico's revolutionary art (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros), David thought painting should "contribute forcefully to the education of the public." The French Revolution and its aftermath gave him a chance to paint propaganda pictures for a vast new public, and a brand-new set of heroes and martyrs to portray. David sat in the National Convention, voted for Louis XVI's death, and eventually went into exile because of it, but not until he had tasted glory with Napoleon. Marat, Robespierre and Napoleon might seem a mixed and dubious cast to admire; to David...
They saw no skeletons, wicked priests, musclebound heroes, firing squads or snarling prostitutes-none of the familiar Orozco trademarks. The mural looked more like a blueprint for a distillery than social propaganda. Orozco had gone abstract with a vengeance, using red streaks and dashes to represent strife, black for death, white for purity and blue for triumph. An eagle and a snake, which also appear in Mexico's flag, dimly inhabited the bright chaos. Struggling up past them into the blue was a pair of lonely human legs. To reflect the sunlight, Orozco had embedded bits of glass into...
Belittling the plastic experiments of his fellow Mexican muralists, Orozco once remarked that he could paint with anything, even mud. But Orozco had been mighty particular about the materials for this picture, brazenly borrowing his method from the men he had once criticized. Mixed with ethyl silicate (a chemical binder used in making industrial plaster molds), his paints were more durable than car enamel. Rain splashed down on the mural every day last week, but failed to wash anything away...