Jose Clemente Orozco was a Mexican painter and one of the three central figures, alongside Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, of the Mexican muralist movement that followed the Mexican Revolution. His large-scale public murals, painted in fresco on the walls of government buildings and universities in Mexico and the United States, addressed themes of revolution, industrialization, and human suffering with a darker, more tragic and expressionistic tone than the more overtly political optimism found in Rivera's work. Major cycles include his murals at the Palacio de Gobierno in Guadalajara and at Dartmouth College's Baker Library, where his epic sequence The Epic of American Civilization remains one of the most significant fresco cycles in the United States.
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BirthplaceZapotlán el Grande (now Ciudad Guzmán), Jalisco, Mexico 1 TrainingAcademy of San Carlos, Mexico City 1 Connections
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One of the three founders of the Mexican Muralism movement.
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José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican painter.
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Early life, birth sentence (birth year)
José Clemente Orozco was born in 1883 in Zapotlán el Grande (now Ciudad Guzmán), Jalisco
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José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883
Early life, birth sentence (birthplace)
José Clemente Orozco was born in 1883 in Zapotlán el Grande (now Ciudad Guzmán), Jalisco
Later life, death sentence (death year)
While still residing in Mexico City, Orozco died in his sleep on September 7, 1949, aged 65.
Later life, death sentence (death date)
While still residing in Mexico City, Orozco died in his sleep on September 7, 1949, aged 65.
Later life, death sentence (death place)
While still residing in Mexico City, Orozco died in his sleep on September 7, 1949, aged 65.
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José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 - September 7, 1949) was a Mexican painter.
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After attending school for Agriculture and Architecture, Orozco studied art at the Academy of San Carlos in
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He specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance, together with fellow artists Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, among others.
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Painting, Muralist
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The Epic of American Civilization is a mural by the social realist painter José Clemente Orozco. It is located in the basement reading room of the Baker Memorial Library on the campus of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire
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