Jose clemente orozco biography and photography
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José Clemente Orozco was born on November 23, 1883 in Zapotlan, Jalisco. His parents, Ireneo Orozco and Rosa Flores were both natives of Jalisco and also descendants of early Spanish settlers. José Clemente Orozco attended public schools in Mexico, and eventually graduated as an specialist agriculturist from the National Agricultural School of Mexico in 1900. He was ravished by his educational opportunities, and Orozco attended the National University of Mexico from 1900-1904. There, he specialized in mathematics and also studied architectural drawing in School of Fine Arts. His studies in architecture led him to work as an architectural draftsman for the architect, Carlos Hererra in Mexico City.
Orozco was influenced by Jose Guadalupe Posada, a satirical illustrator who depicted Mexican culture and politics to challenge fellow Mexicans to think differently about post-revolutionary Mexico. Posada's work was placed at local shops, where Orozco would always take a
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Jose Clemente Orozco's Life and Times
INTRODUCTION
The life of Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) is one of the great, untold stories of modern art—filled with drama, adversity and remarkable achievement. He survived the loss of his left hand and destruction of his early work by U.S. border agents, and witnessed the carnage of the Mexican Revolution and turmoil of the Great Depression in America. A gifted easel painter, Orozco was first and foremost a public artist whose greatest achievements were murals created not for individual patrons but for the whole society.
BIOGRAPHY
Orozco was born in a provincial town in Mexico, but grew up in the hurly-burly world of downtown Mexico City at the turn of the century. He studied at a classical art academy and learned as well from the printmaker José Guadalupe Posada’s vivid art of the street. As a young boy Orozco displayed remarkable talent, but only after he lost his left hand in a tragic accident was he able to de
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José Clemente Orozco
Mexican artist (1883–1949)
José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican caricaturist[1] and painter, who specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others. Orozco was the most complex of the Mexican muralists, fond of the theme of human suffering, but less realistic and more fascinated by machines than Rivera. Mostly influenced bygd Symbolism, he was also a genre painter and lithographer. Between 1922 and 1948, Orozco painted murals in Mexico City, Orizaba, Claremont, California, New York City, Hanover, New Hampshire, Guadalajara, Jalisco, and Jiquilpan, Michoacán.
Life
[edit]José Clemente Orozco was born in 1883 in Zapotlán el Grande (now Ciudad Guzmán), Jalisco to Rosa de Flores Orozco. He was the oldest of his siblings. In 1890 Orozco became interested in art after moving to Mexico City.[2] He married