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José Clemente Orozco
José Clemente Orozco , 1883-1949, Mexican muralist, genre painter, and lithographer, grad. Mexican National Agricultural School. He became an architectural draftsman and in 1908 turned to painting. With Diego Rivera he led the renaissance of modern Mexican art. Orozco's work is bold in exec... Read more
José Guadalupe Posada
José Guadalupe Posada , 1852-1913, Mexican artist. Of peasant stock, he became one of the greatest popular artists of the Americas and influenced the generation of Orozco and Rivera. An imagery of violence was characteristic of him, and he used distortion, caricature, and vigorous lines and c... Read more
Philip Guston
Philip Guston 1913-80, American painter, b. Montreal. Guston emigrated to the United States in 1916. His earliest role models as an artist were such Mexican muralists as José Orozco and David Siqueiros ; he later made nonobjective murals with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning . His... Read more
Juárez
Juárez city (1990 pop. 789,522) Chihuahua state, N Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite El Paso , Tex. Connected with the United States by three international bridges, it is a shipping point and highway and rail terminus. It is also the commercial and processing center for the surrounding cot... Read more
Guadalajara
Guadalajara , city (1990 pop. 1,650,042), capital of Jalisco state, SW Mexico, second largest city of Mexico. The metropolitan area includes close to 3 million people. Guadalajara is a beautiful, spacious city on a plain more than 5,000 ft (1,524 m) high and surrounded by mountains. It is a modern c... Read more
fresco
fresco [Ital.,=fresh], in its pure form the art of painting upon damp, fresh, lime plaster. In Renaissance Italy it was called buon fresco to distinguish it from fresco secco, which was executed upon dry plaster with pigments having a glue or casein base. In true fresco the binder is provided b... Read more
David Alfaro Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros , 1896-1974, Mexican painter, b. Chihuahua. Siqueiros was among Mexico's most original and eminent painters. His career as an artist was always related to his vigorous socialist revolutionary activities. He enlisted in the Batallón Mamá ( "Baby's Brigade" ) in ... Read more
Mexico
Mexico or Mexico City, Span. Ciudad de México ( Méjico ), city (1990 pop. 8,236,960; 1991 met. area est. 20,899,000), central Mexico, capital and largest city of Mexico. The Modern City Mexico City forms the core of the Federal District and is the commercial, industria... Read more
modern art
modern art art created from the 19th cent. to the mid-20th cent. by artists who veered away from the traditional concepts and techniques of painting, sculpture, and other fine arts that had been practiced since the Renaissance (see Renaissance art and architecture ). Nearly every phase of modern a... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Orozco,"

Orozco, José Clemente
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Orozco, José Clemente (1883–...in Revolution (1911–16), Orozco aimed to demonstrate the futility of war...none more so than Katharsis (1934). Orozco's final paintings became increasingly...
José Clemente Orozco
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition José Clemente Orozco , 1883-1949, Mexican muralist, genre...renaissance of modern Mexican art. Orozco's work is bold in execution, often...1917 to 1919 and from 1927 to 1934, Orozco was in the United States. Much of his...
José Clemente Orozco
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Jos é Clemente Orozco The Mexican painter Jos é Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) was one of the artists responsible...painting in Mexico in the 1920s. Jos é Clemente Orozco was born on Nov. 23, 1883, in Zapotl á...
Villa, Francisco (Pancho)
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...Chihuahua, recruited Villa and a military leader, Pascual Orozco, into the revolutionary movement against President Porfirio...and he fought against the counterrevolutionaries, led by Orozco, in 1912. Villa was also an important figure in U.S...
Guadalajara
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...architectural styles. The governor's palace, with murals by J. C. Orozco , is an excellent example of Spanish colonial architecture...Guadalajara and the Instituto Cultural Cabaña also contain Orozco murals. The ornate Teatro Degollado is modeled on Milan's...
Francisco Indalecio Madero
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...of sporadic and ineffective efforts, the forces of Pascual Orozco in the north and those of Emiliano Zapata in the south began...Reyes headed a still-born movement, and the revolutionary Orozco, with conservative backing, posed a serious military threat...
Pancho Villa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...colonel. On May 11, 1911, his forces and those of Pascual Orozco attacked and captured Ciudad Ju á rez contrary to Madero...Villa returned to civilian life as a businessman, but the Orozco rebellion in 1912 brought him back to the fray, defending the...
Romare Howard Bearden
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...just happen to turn out to be Negro." Early in his career he emulated the styles of Rufino Tamayo and Jos é Clemente Orozco, painting simple forms and echoing the crude power he had come to admire in medieval art. His paintings of everyday black...
Victoriano Huerta
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...impatient agrarians of Morelos rebelled against the new administration less than 3 weeks after it took office. When Pascual Orozco pronounced against Madero in February 1912 in northern Mexico with conservative backing, Huerta was recalled to active duty...
Álvaro Obregón
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...of Huatabampo. The following year he recruited a small force to defend Francisco Madero's government against the Pascual Orozco rebellion. Promoted to the rank of colonel during this campaign, he was named military commander of the state capital, Hermosillo...

Dictionary entries related to "Orozco,"

Orozco, José Clemente
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art Orozco, José Clemente (1883–...which was to last on and off until 1920), Orozco began working as a political cartoonist...favourite symbol of human degradation for Orozco). The angry reaction of critics and moralists...
Orozco, Rafael
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Orozco, Rafael ( b Córdoba, 1946; d Rome, 1996). Sp. pianist. Won Leeds int. pf. comp. 1966. Int. career.
Siqueiros, David Alfaro
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...one of the trio of muralists (with Orozco and Rivera ) who dominated 20th-century...generally more spectacular even than those of Orozco and Rivera—bold in composition...disillusionment and foreboding sometimes seen in Orozco's work, Siqueiros always expressed...
de Fuentes, Fernando
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...murals of Diego Rivera, David Siquieros, and José Orozco. Fiction films did not examine this watershed event seriously...Mendoza recreates the revolution from a perspective similar to Orozco's vision of individual tragedies and private pain. Rosalio...
Guston, Philip
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...Los Angeles, but otherwise he was self-taught as an artist. After travelling in Mexico in 1934, studying the work of Orozco and Rivera in particular, he settled in New York and from 1934 to 1941 worked as a muralist on the Federal Art Project . In...
Taller de Gráfica Popular
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...printmaking of which Posada was the most famous representative and it parallelled the concerns of the contemporary Mexican muralists, Orozco , Rivera , and Siqueiros . In the 1940s and 1950s there were usually about 12 to 15 artists working at the TGP at any one time...
Atl, Dr
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...1902. After his return to Mexico he became a teacher at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City, where his pupils included Orozco , Rivera , and Siqueiros . In the 1920s he held a government post in which he promoted the mural decoration of public buildings...
Tamayo, Rufino
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...painter, printmaker, sculptor, and collector, the son of Zapotec Indians. Apart from the trio of great muralists— Orozco , Rivera , and Siqueiros —he was probably the most celebrated Mexican artist of the 20th century, but his work was...
Fernández, Emilio
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Garcia (Peckinpah) 1980 Las cabareteras (Cisneros); Una gallina muy ponedora (Portillo); Ahora mis pistolas hablan (Orozco) 1983 Mi abuelo, mi perro y yo (Fernández); Los amantes (Vega); Mercenarios (Cisneros); Under the Volcano...
fresco
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...Cornelius , but some notable decorators, such as Delacroix and Puvis de Chavannes , preferred to use the method of marouflage . In the 20th century the most famous exponents of fresco were the Mexican muralists Orozco , Rivera , and Siqueiros .

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Orozco guilty
Newspaper article from: Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.; 3/20/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...putting convicted cop killer Jose Luis Orozco to death Tuesday after a jury returned...stemming from the deputy's 2005 murder. Orozco sat stone-faced as the guilty verdicts...benefit his gang. The findings qualify Orozco for a death sentence for the June 24...
Orozco the Embalmer
Magazine article from: Film International; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; Orozco the Embalmer Orozco el embalsamador/Shi geshou shi orozuko Japan 1999 Directed by Kiyotaka Tsurisaki With Froilan Orozco Duarte. "THE MAGAZINE", A RUN-DOWN neighborhood in Bogota...
`Nervous' Orozco signs on for Ashford
Newspaper article from: Herald News, The (Joliet, IL); 5/23/2005; ; 700+ words ; Plainfield South's Kristin Orozco talks about signing with Ashford University...Friday morning. Senior setter Kristin Orozco paced Plainfield South with 447 assists...Plainfield South High School's Kristin Orozco on her Declaration of College. Less...
José Clemente Orozco en Bogotá y México. (José Clemente Orozco, pintor mexicano)(TT: José Clemente Orozco in Bogota and Mexico) (TA: José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 4/19/1998; ; 700+ words ; Instalado en 1934 en Coyoacn, Orozco se concentr en la ejecucin de litografas...fue un gnero demasiado frecuentado por Orozco. Anteriores al de Alicia Echeverra...trabajado en 1921 cuando Rosa Flores de Orozco tena 76 aos de edad y viva en Coyoacn...
Defense grills Orozco's friends
Newspaper article from: Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.; 3/13/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...NORWALK - The prosecution painted Jose Luis Orozco as a ruthless gang member as his trial...point. Rather than take the position that Orozco is not guilty in the slaying of Los Angeles...s Deputy Jerry Ortiz in June 2005, Orozco's attorneys continued to launch an aggressive...
Death for Orozco
Newspaper article from: Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.; 4/3/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...ruling that he be put to death. Jose Luis Orozco showed almost no emotion throughout the...prior to the ambush killing of Ortiz, Orozco sat staring straight ahead, unflinching...same time, a small smile spread across Orozco's face and he chuckled. "We understand...
Brother tells of Orozco as child
Newspaper article from: Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.; 3/29/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...spread over two days, to find Jose Luis Orozco guilty in the 2005 slaying of Los Angeles...presented witnesses and evidence that showed Orozco had a long criminal history and boasted...sympathetic light. As a child, Jose Luis Orozco was fairly shy in class, occasionally...
Orozco's U.S. odyssey
Magazine article from: Americas; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Mexico in 1927," wrote Jose Clemente Orozco in his autobiography, "and I resolved...my journey and stay of three months." Orozco's "stay of three months" stretched...new traveling exhibition, Jose Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934, opens...
Orozco receives death penalty
Newspaper article from: Whittier Daily News; 4/3/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...ruling that he be put to death. Jose Luis Orozco showed almost no emotion throughout the...prior to the ambush killing of Ortiz, Orozco sat staring straight ahead, unflinching...same time, a small smile spread across Orozco's face and he chuckled. "We understand...
Orozco Takes on Wapato Council -- Outssted councilman says ordinance that justifies removal fails to pass legal muster
Newspaper article from: Yakima Herald-Republic; 12/24/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...his dismissal earlier this month. Juan Orozco claims top city officials are trying to...abusing what authority they have in town," Orozco said. Mayor Don Stellwagen said it...does not allow for excused absences. Orozco, who was elected to the council in November...