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.

José Clemente Orozco (born Nov. 23, 1883, Ciudad Guzmán, Mex.—died Sept. 7, 1949, Mexico City) was a 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.

The Mexican painter José Clemente Orozco is best known for his political murals initiating Mexican Muralism – a movement that began in the 1920s intending to unite the country after the Mexican Revolution. Through commissions, the government promoted murals that had potent social and political messages about the country’s history and future.

Working in a highly expressionistic form of social realism, Orozco focused his painting on representing post-revolutionary Mexico— peasants and class struggle, the hardships of everyday life, social revolution, wars, and women in those wars.

2014年4月2日 · José Clemente Orozco was a painter who helped lead the revival of Mexican mural painting in the 1920s. His works are complex and often tragic.

José Clemente Orozco (Zapotlán, actual Ciudad Guzmán, 1883 - México, 1949) Muralista mexicano.

Orozco's style is a mixture of conventional, Renaissance -period compositions and modeling, emotionally expressive, modernist abstraction, typically dark, ominous palettes, and forms and iconography deriving from the country's indigenous, pre-colonial, pre-European art.