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...Three-chinned Diego Rivera and one-handed José Clemente Orozco, famed Mexican mural painters, have had years of hot personal differences. Last month Rivera walked into Orozco's studio to ask for a few pointers on fresco technique. Last week, in a lecture to an audience which included Orozco, Rivera called him the greatest living artist in their field...
Dominated by Mexico, the exhibition had about 246 square feet of Muralists Diego Maria Rivera and José Clemente Orozco alone. There were also many small drawings and lithographs by younger, lesser known Mexicans who revealed at least as much imagination and power of draftsmanship as their elder, more celebrated countrymen. With their elders, they shared modern Mexican art's preoccupation with violence and deformity, both inward and outward...
Renaissance II? Today, with individualism lost on the battlefields and society groping through crisis after crisis for a new set of values in which it can believe, mural painting, celebrating great ideals like freedom, equality, progress and national dignity, has certainly revived. Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco found a true mural subject in Mexico's groping and frustrated but passionate revolution...
Mexican painting has had its jitterbugs aplenty, but many U. S. gallerygoers have the impression that Mexican painting consists of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros - who are only the Paul Whitemans and Benny Goodmans of Mexican...
...Marxist revolutionary murals on which Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros rode to fame has pretty well petered out today, but the art of easel painting is running full blast. A flourishing group of some 40 able painters, including Abstractionists Carlos Orozco Romero and Carlos Merida, splashily realistic Jesus Guerrero Galvan and Federico Cantu, are beginning to be known in the U. S. Among the new ones touted by Critic Helm are Antonio Ruiz, who paints street scenes in a Covarrubias-like style, and 21-year-old Guillermo Meza, who took up painting be cause he didn't have enough money...