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...second floor of Mexico City's Supreme Court building, the harsh hand of José Clemente Orozco, famed Mexican muralist, could be seen all over the walls. Artists liked what they saw, but several Supreme Court Justices did not: they were angered by an Orozco panel showing blindfolded Justice in a compromising position (see cut). They demanded that the murals be removed...
Mexico City boasts a world-famed triumvirate of painters: doe-eyed Diego Rivera, somber José Clemente Orozco, fiery David Alfaro Sequeiros. To Mexican fellow artists the triumvirate is a trust, often regarded with murderous jealousy. But the public regards the triumvirate, whose members have sometimes quarreled fiercely, as an entertaining three-ring circus...
...give-the-kids-a-chance exhibit of young painters, in protest against the Government's Department of Fine Arts, which Rivera considers stifling. Triumvir Sequeiros proclaimed Rivera's show unnecessary and based on an idea that was "old and a failure." Sixty-one-year-old Triumvir Orozco, invited to exhibit with the youngsters, flatly refused. The atmosphere burned with reports, discussions, tempestades. Painter Maria Izquierdo pronounced all three leaders publicity hounds...
...skulduggery (one antique dealer last year exhibited 200 European paintings, of which only five were of value and authenticity). Try to expose this scandal, said he, and what do you get? A shellacking from the public prints. Sequeiros counterattacked from a different quarter. He reputedly joined Rivera and Orozco in consultation with a local soothsayer, who promised to unmask all their enemies for a modest 3,000 pesos ($590). At week's end, the deal was still in the making...
...then as a dictator. The San Carlos Academy of Art, near Posada's workshop, was teaching a decadent, imported style to young artists. Posada ignored the Academy, attacked the Diaz regime with vitriolic cartoons. Among his admirers were today's top-ranking Mexican artists, José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera, young students of the time whose work was strongly influenced by his. (Orozco: "Posada is the equal of the greatest artists. . . ." Rivera: "As great as Goya...