biography
| name: |
Orozco, José Clemente
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pronunciation:
[oroskoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1883–1949)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Ciudad Guzmán (formerly Zapotlán el Grande), W Mexico. He studied engineering and architectural drawing in Mexico City, and art at the Academia San Carlos (1906–10). One of the greatest mural painters of the 20th-c, he decorated many public buildings in Mexico and the USA. His work frequently embraced the themes of the Mexican Revolution, and the mechanization and dehumanization of life in the metropolis. His best-known works include ‘Soldadero’ (c.1917), ‘Christ Destroys His Cross’ (1922), ‘Omniscience’ (1925), and ‘Juárez Reborn’ (1948). |
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