José Clemente Orozco - Factbites
 Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: José Clemente Orozco


    Note: these results are not from the primary (high quality) database.


Related Topics

In the News (Wed 30 Dec 09)

  
 José Clemente Orozco. Vida y obra. Biography and works
Cardoza y Aragón, Luis-José Clemente Orozco-, UNAM, 1959.
Fernández Justino,-José Clemente Orozco-, 10 reproductions in color with descriptions by Justino Fernández, E.Fischgrund, Modern Art Editions, Mexico, 1944 (Spanish and English).
Gamboa, Fernando,-José Clemente Orozco-, Ediciones de Arte, 1948.
www.colegionacional.org.mx /Orozco0.htm   (1640 words)

  
 José Clemente Orozco
Orozco en Nueva York.(José Clemente Orozco, pintor)(TT: Orozco in New York.)(TA: Jose Clemente Orozco, painter) (Proceso)
Orozco, José Clemente, 1883–1949, Mexican muralist, genre painter, and lithographer, grad.
Orozco's work is bold in execution, often brilliant in color, and deals compassionately with social themes, especially human versus machine.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0836913.html   (287 words)

  
 Jose Clemente Orozco Biography / Biography of Jose Clemente Orozco Main Biography
The Mexican painter José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) was one of the artists responsible for the renaissance of mural painting in Mexico in the 1920s.
José Clemente Orozco was born on Nov. 23, 1883, in Zapotlán el Grande (now Ciudad Guzmán) in the state of Jalisco.
Orozco was one of the founders of the National College in 1943, and there he presented six exhibitions between 1943 and 1948.
www.bookrags.com /biography-jose-clemente-orozco   (568 words)

  
 Jose Clemente Orozco Online
All images and text on this Jose Clemente Orozco page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
Jose Clemente Orozco at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Library of Congress, Washington D.C. Mujer mexicana, lithograph, 1929
Jose Clemente Orozco at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/orozco_jose_clemente.html   (312 words)

  
 Orozco, José Clemente Orozco, University of Texas Press
Clemente Orozco is Curator and President of the Fundación José Clemente Orozco in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Mexican painter José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) was one of the twentieth century's major artists and Mexico's greatest muralist.
In addition to his acclaimed work in painting, Orozco was also a skilled and versatile printmaker, architectural draftsman, caricaturist, portraitist, book illustrator, and stage designer for ballet.
www.utexas.edu /utpress/books/orocle.html   (249 words)

  
 Table of Contents and Excerpt, Orozco, José Clemente Orozco
Orozco dedicated three well-defined periods to this art: 1928-1930, 1935, and 1944, which correspond to the series in New York, in Coyoacán, and on Ignacio Mariscal in Mexico City, respectively.
Orozco always started a new work with great alacrity and professional passion, whether he dealt with formidable projects or with works in the simplest format.
Orozco illustrated some of the books in the classical text collection published by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) during the tenure of José Vasconcelos, secretary of public education, in 1923.
www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exorocle.html   (895 words)

  
 José Clemente Orozco
José Clemente Orozco was born to Rosa de Flores Orozco on November 23,1883.
Orozco craved uniqueness and didn't want to be put in a category.
Orozco also got the opportunity to paint some murals in California.
staff.esuhsd.org /~balochie/studentprojects/mexmuralists/mexicanmuralist7.html   (293 words)

  
 Jose Clemente Orozco Online
All images and text on this Jose Clemente Orozco page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
Jose Clemente Orozco at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Library of Congress, Washington D.C. Mujer mexicana, lithograph, 1929
Jose Clemente Orozco at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/orozco_jose_clemente.html   (301 words)

  
 Orozco at Dartmouth
JosÉ Clemente Orozco came to Dartmouth in May, 1932 as a visiting lecturer in the department of art.
This is a photograph of Orozco in front of his "epic".
During his visit, Orozco realized that the blank walls of the reserve book room would enable him to paint the "greatest work of his career", an epic of civilization on the American continent.
www.dartmouth.edu /~library/Orozco   (276 words)

  
 Jose Clemente Orozco --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The most eminent painter of murals in the 20th century was the Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco.
Orozco was born in Ciudad Guzman, Mexico, on Nov. 23, 1883, but he grew up in Mexico City.
In his own country he was honored as a leader among those whose works were instrumental in raising Mexican art to a position of international prominence.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9276217?tocId=9276217   (691 words)

  
 The Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access
José Clemente Orozco, a leader of the Mexican mural movement during the 1920s and 1930s, presented Zapata as a ghostlike figure who appears in the open door of a peasant hut.
Orozco later claimed that he painted Zapata, which was sold to the actor Vincent Price, to finance his trip back to New York after completing a mural commission in California.
Orozco painted this dramatic canvas during his self-imposed exile in the United States, where he moved to escape riots inspired by anti-Catholic murals he had created in Mexico City.
www.artic.edu /artaccess/AA_Modern/pages/MOD_10.shtml   (244 words)

  
 Orozco, Jose Clemente (Mexican, 1883-1949) Artist Index Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rear Guard, 1929, José Clemente Orozco (Mexican, 1883–1949), Lithograph (29.63.4)
www.metmuseum.org /toah/hi/hi_orozcojoseclemente.htm   (18 words)

  
 MoMA.org Exhibitions 1997 Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Like his contemporaries Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and José Clemente Orozco, Alvarez Bravo was influenced by the indigenous culture of Mexico throughout his career, but he also remained open to artistic influences outside his native country.
Alvarez Bravo's career began in the thriving artistic environment of post-revolutionary Mexico, when Mexico City emerged as an international center for artistic and intellectual exchange.
Some have not been seen since they were first exhibited in the early 1930s.
www.moma.org /exhibitions/1997/alvarezbravo   (18 words)

  
 José Clemente Orozco - Definition of José Clemente Orozco by Webster's Online Dictionary
José Clemente Orozco not found in the Dictionary
José Clemente Orozco - Definition of José Clemente Orozco by Webster's Online Dictionary
www.webster-dictionary.org /definition/Jos%E9%20Clemente%20Orozco   (31 words)

  
 José Clemente Orozco. Vida y obra. Biography and works
José Clemente Orozco: an autobiography-, translated by Robert C. Stephenson, Introduction by John Palmer Leeper.
José Clemente Orozco, una vida para el arte
When he was a young boy, he met José Guadalupe Posada, who inspired him to become interested in painting.
www.colegionacional.org.mx /Orozco0.htm   (31 words)

  
 Alibris: Browse Books by ISBN
0661041604 : José Clemente Orozco, 1883-1949 : [Text-Bild-Band zur Ausstellung aus Mexiko, Orangerie Schloss Charlottenburg Berlin, 24.
0661093094 : José Lezama Lima, poeta de la imagen
0661135080 : José Martí, anticlerical irreductible : estudio preliminar
www.alibris.com /books/isbns/8666   (31 words)

  
 Siqueiros, David Alfaro on Encyclopedia.com
Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, and José Clemente Orozco are often referred to as "los tres grandes" —the three greats of Mexican mural painting.
Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros, Khalo y Botero: en la mirada de Cuevas.(pintores)(José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Frida Khalo, Fernando Botero)
El FBI tras falsos Siqueiros: como heredera de David Alfaro Siqueiros, su hija Adriana ha asumido el derecho de certíficar sus obras artísticas.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Siqueiro.asp   (639 words)

  
 Phoenix Art Museum - Mexican Works on Paper from the Museum's Collection
Mexican Works on Paper from the Museum's Collection features artists who worked almost exclusively on paper — José Guadalupe Posada, Leopoldo Méndez, José Luis Cuevas — as well as artists known primarily as painters, including Rufino Tamayo, Carlos Mérida and muralists, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
José Guadalupe Posada, in his incorporation of popular traditions, was an inspiration for the artists of the Taller where the educational potential of printmaking was joined with the aesthetic and political concerns of the time.
The Taller produced posters, broadsides, illustrated histories of labor union struggles, and images for pamphlets that had the same wide exposure as a mural in a public building.
www.phxart.org /pastexhibitions/mex_work.asp   (639 words)

  
 Modulos Culturales: How to use the modulos
José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) was born in the province of Jalisco, Mexico, where he lived until moving with his family to Mexico City at the age of seven.
Orozco's murals can also be seen in Mexico City, Orizaba, Guadalajara, and Jiquilpan, Mexico, and in New York City and Claremont, California.
There Orozco began his schooling in art at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts, exhibited his early works, and later painted some of his most famous public murals.
www.dartmouth.edu /~spanmod/mural   (639 words)

  
 Juan José Viamonte
Con apoyo oficial y de Mart n Luis Guzm n y Jos Clemente Orozco, fundaron el Ballet de la Ciudad de M xico...
Jos Juan Tablada evoca dos sitios donde sol...
Carpio, Guillermo Prieto, Manuel Acu a, Juan de Dios...
enciclopedia.cc /Juan_Jos%C3%A9_Viamonte   (639 words)

  
 A Visual Biography of Diego Rivera
Rivera was an active member of the Communist party and he started, with José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, the "Sindicato Nacional de Pintores." His participation in the party, however, was very influenced by his activities as a painter.
Diego Rivera is considered the father of Mexican mural art and the father of modern political art in Mexico along with Guadalupe Posada.
Rivera was a very skilled painter, and as José Vasconcelos says, "everything could be forgiven to Diego because he knew how to paint with exact drawing and perfect coloring when he wanted" (Vasconcelos 227).
www2.kenyon.edu /Depts/Mll/Spanish/Projects/Trejo-Zacarias/english.htm   (3368 words)

  
 Gallery Guide ... Portal to the fine arts!
The artists featured in this presentation include many leading figures of the 20th century: Mexican artists Gerardo Murillo Cornadó (Dr. Atl), Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Toledo and José Luis Cuevas; Guatemalan artist Carlos Merida; Cuban artist Wifredo Lam; Chilean artist Roberto Sebastian Matta; celebrated silversmith William Spratling and others.
www.gallery-guide.com /2003-10/editorials/wc032.asp   (337 words)

  
 Jose guadalupe posada
Nevertheless this fact, their work influenced in posterior artists like José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Francisco Díaz de León and Leopoldo Méndez.
Posada helps to consolidate celebration about the Day of Dead, because he was the artist that better interpreted the life and the social attitudes of the Mexican town.
José Guadalupe Posada, 1852-1913, a celebrity for their drawings and engravings about the death, He made works of printing, advertisings and commercial works.
www.acabtu.com.mx /diademuertos/hollowsday/posada.html   (337 words)

  
 A Visual Biography of Diego Rivera
Rivera was an active member of the Communist party and he started, with José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, the "Sindicato Nacional de Pintores." His participation in the party, however, was very influenced by his activities as a painter.
Rivera was always playing with the contradictions of his own existence, starting with the fact that he was on the side of the oppressed without being oppressed.
Rivera was a very skilled painter, and as José Vasconcelos says, "everything could be forgiven to Diego because he knew how to paint with exact drawing and perfect coloring when he wanted" (Vasconcelos 227).
www2.kenyon.edu /Depts/Mll/Spanish/Projects/Trejo-Zacarias/english.htm   (3368 words)

  
 Diego Rivera Web Museum: Biography
Integra junto con José Clemente Orozco y David Alfaro Siqueiros, la comisión de Pintura Mural del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes.
Participa en la construcción del Estadio Nacional y entabla una polémica con el Colegio de Arquitectos.
Nombrado Director de la Escuela de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Nacional, prepara un plan de estudios que suscita polémica.
www.diegorivera.com /bio/index.html   (3368 words)

  
 The Washington Diplomat
"Enrique Estrada," an exhibit by the Mexican contemporary artist with the same name, showcases a wide range of work influenced by the muralist movement and by painters Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros—otherwise known as Los Tres Grandes, or The Big Three.
Figueroa became an icon in cinematography and filled his photographs with surrealism, eroticism and indigenous pride.
Figueroa made more than 200 films and won numerous international awards.
www.washdiplomat.com /02-09/b8_02_09.html   (3368 words)

  
 Discount World Hotels offers discounts on hotel rates in Mexico with secure online reservation
Highlights include the giant, twin-towered cathedral and the lovely plazas that surround it, the Instituto Cultural de Cabañas and its frescoes by José Clemente Orozco, the Plaza de los Mariachis if you're a masochist, and the twin handicraft-filled suburbs of Tlaquepaque and Tonalá.
Local indigenous influences can be seen in the stucco decoration of the Capilla del Rosario in the Templo de Santo Domingo - a sumptuous baroque proliferation of gilded plaster and carved stone with angels and cherubs popping out from behind every leaf.
The route includes several stops in the fabled Barranca del Cobre (Copper Canyon) - actually a group of 20 canyons, and all up four times larger than the Grand Canyon.
www.discountworldhotels.net /mexico/index.html   (1258 words)

  
 EUROPE: Western / Ancient Greece / Prometheus
From the Montgomery Gallery at Pomona College in Claremont, California comes this powerful page on "Prometheus," José Clemente Orozco's 1930 mural, located in the dining hall at Pomona College:
Prometheus (mythology), in Greek mythology, one of the Titans, known as the friend and benefactor of humanity, the son of the Titan Iapetus by the sea nymph Clymene or the Titaness Themis....
...The fire that Prometheus stole is traditionally understood to symbolize wisdom and enlightenment, and the myth, therefore, represented an apt metaphor for the task of the college.
www.mythinglinks.org /euro~west~greece~Prometheus.html   (3421 words)

  
 Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Print Collecting: An Early Mission for MoMA - Museum of Modern Art - Absolutearts.com
This period was one in which the muralists Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and JosÂŽ Clemente Orozco, known as los tres grandes (the three great ones), were widely celebrated and sought after for commissions that brought them regularly to this country.
Rockefeller decided to donate her collection of prints to the Museum with the understanding that a Print Room would be incorporated to house her collection.
Rockefeller died in 1948 and did not see the establishment of the curatorial department that had been one of her missions for The Museum of Modern Art.
www.absolutearts.com /cgi-bin/news/arts-news-elaborate.cgi?output_number=20&find=67   (3421 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.