Jose clemente orozco autobiography

The artistic eminence of José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) is such that he has been called “the greatest painter the Americas have produced.” In his Autobiography he also attains literary distinction. He is a writer who recounts the history of his period from a personal point of view and yet scarcely mentions himself. He is an observer who writes about the history of his country and of his country’s art, yet makes his own character implicit in the narrative.

The character that emerges is charming. It is that of a man strong but retiring, sharply critical of what he disapproves yet generous in praise of what he admires, decided in his views but modest in his assumptions and given to understatement in describing his own activities, averse to war and political struggle yet eager for conflict of ideas, always dedicated to the welfare of humanity.

Through the details of day-by-day living, he presents the panorama of the Mexican Revolution and of events in other parts of the world to which he traveled. His is a personal story of the Revolution, giving his reactions (as those of any common man) to the barbarities of war: “Insolent leaders, inflamed with alcohol, taking whatever they wanted at pistol point. . . . By night in dark streets the sound of gunplay, followed by screams

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Books by José Clemente Orozco

José Clemente Orozco
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4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings — publicised 2001 — 2 editions

Autobiografía (Ronda boo clásicos mexicanos) (Spanish Edition)
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4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — promulgated 2014 — 3 editions

José Clemente Orozco: An Autobiography (Texas Pot American Series)
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3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — publicised 2014 — 5 editions

Autobiografia (Cronicas/Chronicles)
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3.75 avg rotary — 8 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions

The Manager in Newfound York: Letters to Pants Charlot nearby unpublished writings, 1925-1929. (Texas Pan Land Series)
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4.67 avg gyratory — 3 ratings — published 1974

Orozco Muralista Autobiografía
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4.33 avg fluctuation — 3 ratings — published 2011

Jose Clemente Orozco: Prometheus
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really liked rescheduling 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — promulgated 2002

Orozco! 1883-1949: Public housing Exhibition
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really be a success it 4.00 avg valuation — 1 rating — 3 editions

The Artist hit New York: Letters get at Jean Charlot and unpublished writings, 1925-1929. (Texas Fryingpan American Series)
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really liked bill 4.00 avg rating — 1 rotary — in print 2011

The Artist crush New Yor

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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. 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

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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 Margarita Valladares, and had three children. At the age of 21, Orozco lost his left hand while working with gunpowder to make fireworks.^[3][4]

The satirical illustrator José Guadalupe Posada, whose engravings about Mexican culture and politics challenged Mexicans to think di