Brief biography on 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.

Brief biography on josé clemente orozco

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.

Life

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 Marga