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- José Clemente Orozco was a painter who helped lead the revival of Mexican mural painting in the 1920s.
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- José Clemente Orozco was a painter who helped lead the revival of Mexican mural painting in the 1920s.
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- José Clemente Orozco was a Mexican painter, considered the most important 20th-century muralist to work in fresco.
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- José Clemente Orozco (Novem – 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.
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José Clemente Orozco
(1883-1949)
Who Was José Clemente Orozco?
Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco created impressive, realistic paintings. A product of the Mexican Revolution, he overcame poverty and eventually traveled to the United States and Europe to paint frescos for major institutions. A man of unparalleled vision, as well as striking contradiction, he died of heart failure at age 65.
Early Life
Born in Mexico in 1883, Orozco was raised in Zapotlán el Grande, a small city in Mexico’s southwestern region of Jalisco. When he was still a young boy, Orozco’s parents moved to Mexico City in hopes of making a better life for their three children. His father, Ireneo, was a businessman, and his mother, Maria Rosa, worked as a homemaker and sometimes sang for extra income. Despite his parents’ efforts, they often lived on the edge of poverty. The Mexican Revolution was heating up, and being a highly sensitive child, Orozco began noticing the many hardships people around him