Collection: JOSE CLEMENTE OROZCO
José Clemente Orozco, (born Nov. 23, 1883, Ciudad Guzmán, Mex.—died Sept. 7, 1949, Mexico City).
Mexican painter, considered the most important 20th-century muralist to work in fresco.
Orozco first became interested in art in 1890, when his family moved to Mexico City. Going to and from school each day, he paused in the open workshop of José Guadalupe Posada, Mexico’s first great printmaker, whose grotesque caricatures and illustrations appeared in sensational broadsides (single printed sheets intended for a largely illiterate public) devoted to reporting lurid crimes and political scandals. Orozco was captivated by Posada’s strong images and vivid style, and for the rest of his life he acknowledged the early influence of the master engraver.