Jose Clemente Orozco Analysis
Jose Clemente Orozco was a famous Mexican Social Realist who specialized in bold murals that established Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others. Orozco was the most complex of the Mexican muralists, fond of the theme of human suffering, and realist. Mostly influenced by symbolism, he was also a genre painter between 1922 and 1948.
Orozco’s painting Hidalgo was painted in 1949 at the governor’s palace in Guadalajara. The ceiling painted mural at the governor’s palace is very intimidating when one first looks at it as you ascend its stairs. Father Hidalgo was a Mexican Catholic priest that advocated for the war of independence from Spain. In the mural Orozco is wielding a torch and is standing over several other scenes that tie into his vigilance against …show more content…
Orozco created a style well suited to the task that had allocated his political and social concerns at the time and his willingness to teach others of religious and political oppression around the world along with his colleagues in art David Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
Orozco was, as an artist who chose "political commitment" such as Hidalgo, are themes that reflect change, tormented force and original expertise, tragedy and heroism that explain the Mexican history as well as defines a remarkable penetration that captures cultural or ethnic montage of portraits to his country.
Orozco had every intention of being a plastic shell of the artist revolution, in Hidalgo as well as Orozco stood a monumental, deeply tragic portrait of art for its content and topics related to historical events. Orozco’s painting of Hidalgo reflected social and political issues that had prevailed in the country, providing always from the disappointment and a progressive leftist perspective, which as art should, explain his as well as current events with an extremely critical
Orozco’s painting Hidalgo was painted in 1949 at the governor’s palace in Guadalajara. The ceiling painted mural at the governor’s palace is very intimidating when one first looks at it as you ascend its stairs. Father Hidalgo was a Mexican Catholic priest that advocated for the war of independence from Spain. In the mural Orozco is wielding a torch and is standing over several other scenes that tie into his vigilance against …show more content…
Orozco created a style well suited to the task that had allocated his political and social concerns at the time and his willingness to teach others of religious and political oppression around the world along with his colleagues in art David Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
Orozco was, as an artist who chose "political commitment" such as Hidalgo, are themes that reflect change, tormented force and original expertise, tragedy and heroism that explain the Mexican history as well as defines a remarkable penetration that captures cultural or ethnic montage of portraits to his country.
Orozco had every intention of being a plastic shell of the artist revolution, in Hidalgo as well as Orozco stood a monumental, deeply tragic portrait of art for its content and topics related to historical events. Orozco’s painting of Hidalgo reflected social and political issues that had prevailed in the country, providing always from the disappointment and a progressive leftist perspective, which as art should, explain his as well as current events with an extremely critical