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Orozco’s “Epic of American Civilization” is a monumental fresco cycle created for Dartmouth College’s Baker Library between 1932 and 1934. The artwork depicts a sweeping narrative of American history from pre-Columbian societies to the industrial era, reflecting modernist concerns with historical in...
José Clemente Orozco’s “Man of Fire” is a monumental fresco created in 1939 for the Hospicio Cabañas in Guadalajara, Mexico. This modernist work portrays a figure consumed by flames, an allegorical representation of humanity's potential destruction and rebirth. The painting’s scale and dramatic imag...
Prometheus is a fresco painted by Mexican artist Jose Clemente Orozco in the dining hall of Pomona College in Claremont, California, in 1930. It presents the mythological Prometheus bringing fire to humanity, surrounded by figures whose reactions range from aspiration to fear and conflict. The mural...
The Trench is a fresco painted by José Clemente Orozco at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria in Mexico City during the 1920s. It presents three fallen or collapsing revolutionary fighters in a compressed, angular composition, avoiding a celebratory account of combat and emphasizing suffering, sacrifi...
Katharsis is a monumental mural painted by José Clemente Orozco in 1934 for the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Its compressed mass of bodies, weapons, flames, and machinery presents modern society as a scene of violence, mechanization, sexual exploitation, and moral disorder. The work belon...
José Clemente Orozco painted a cycle of murals at the New School for Social Research in New York in 1930 and 1931. Created for the institution's modernist building, the frescoes address revolution, political struggle, education, and international solidarity through figures drawn from several countri...
