José Clemente Orozco
- Introduction
- José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican caricaturist 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 by 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. His drawings and paintings are exhibited by the Carrillo Gil Museum in Mexico City, and the Orozco Workshop-Museum in Guadalajara. Orozco was known for being a politically committed artist, and he promoted the political causes of peasants and workers.
- Wikidata
- Q332041
- Nationality
- Mexican
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Muralist, History Artist, Painter
- Names
- José Clemente Orozco, Khose Klemente Orosko, J. C. Orozco, Jose Clemente Orozco, Orozco
- Ulan
- 500012316
Exhibitions
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509: New York City, 1920s
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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522: Responding to War
Ongoing
MoMA
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Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern
Mar 17–Jun 15, 2019
MoMA
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Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013
Jan 1–Dec 31, 2013
MoMA
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Painting &
Sculpture II Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2015
MoMA
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José Clemente Orozco has
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José Clemente Orozco Feet (no. 2) (1923)
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José Clemente Orozco Male Torso (1923)
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José Clemente Orozco The Subway 1928
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José Clemente Orozco The Requiem (El Requiem) 1928
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José Clemente Orozco Vaudeville in Harlem (Teatro de Variedades en Harlem) 1928
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José Clemente Orozco The Flag (La Bandera) 1928
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José Clemente Orozco Mexican Peasants Working (Maguayes y nopales) 1929
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José Clemente Orozco The Maguey 1929
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José Clemente Orozco Rear Guard (La Retaguardia) 1929
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José Clemente Orozco Mexican Pueblo 1929
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José Clemente Orozco Three Generations (Tres generaciones) 1929
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José Clemente Orozco Marching Women 1929
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José Clemente Orozco Mexican Landscape 1929
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José Clemente Orozco The Franciscan (El Franciscano) 1929
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José Clemente Orozco Mexican Woman (Mujer mexicana) 1929
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José Clemente Orozco Soldier's Wife 1929
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José Clemente Orozco Ruined House (Casa arruinada) 1929
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José Clemente Orozco Grief (Aflicción) 1930
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José Clemente Orozco Hands (Manos) 1930
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José Clemente Orozco Three Generations (Tres generaciones) (1930)
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José Clemente Orozco Barricade 1931
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José Clemente Orozco Zapatistas 1931
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José Clemente Orozco Unemployed 1932
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José Clemente Orozco Head of Quetzalcoatl (Study for the Dartmouth College Mural, "An Epic of American Civilization") (c. 1932-34)
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José Clemente Orozco Composition study for Gods of the Modern World (c. 1932-34)
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George Biddle, Jacob Burck, Adolf Dehn, George Grosz, Reginald Marsh, José Clemente Orozco, Various Artists The American Scene, no. 1 1933–35, published 1935
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José Clemente Orozco The Hanged Men from The American Scene, no. 1 1933–34, published 1935
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José Clemente Orozco The Masses 1935
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José Clemente Orozco Dead Woman (1935)
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José Clemente Orozco Proletarians 1935
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José Clemente Orozco Legs (1938)
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José Clemente Orozco Dive Bomber and Tank 1940
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José Clemente Orozco Self-Portrait 1940
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José Clemente Orozco Study for Dive Bomber and Tank 1940
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José Clemente Orozco Study for Dive Bomber and Tank 1940
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José Clemente Orozco Study for Dive Bomber and Tank 1940
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José Clemente Orozco Study for Dive Bomber and Tank 1940
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José Clemente Orozco Study for Dive Bomber and Tank 1940
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José Clemente Orozco Study for Dive Bomber and Tank 1940
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José Clemente Orozco Crouching Model (1947)
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José Clemente Orozco Clenched Fist (1948)
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