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Mexican art
Orozco
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which Mexican artist was self taught and did not visit Europe while the others were doing so? | Orozco |
| Where is the work “Youth” located in? | Prepatory School |
| Did Orozco care about the viewers of the art and their opinion? | No, he did not care about anyone. |
| What did not caring about the spectator's feelings lead Orozco's paintings to be like? | It led to a relatively greater maturity in his mural designs. |
| What happened with Orozco and his government views. | It wasn't long after he bagan to make fun of his own party. |
| What is Orozco's main attitude in life and his paintings? | He shows melancholy; universalizes the sorrows which he observes to be charactersitic of his time |
| In Guadalajara Orozco has a painting of what and where specifically? | He has a large panel in the staircase of the Palace, showing Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini in a context |
| What impresesses Orozco about Rivera's paintings? | His left hand cimpliment |
| Where was Orozco born? | In the farming village of Zapotlan, Jalisco, in 1883 |
| Where did Orozco go to when he was 12? 20? | At age 12 he went to an agricultutral school. At age 20 he went to the Preparatory School where he studied mathematics in anticiaption of a course in architecture. |
| At age 30 what did Orozco help with? | He helped with the punblications of the "Jungle Group" in Orizaba a series of caricatures based on his observations of revolutionary activities. |
| Describe the etchings of Goya. | Portrayed the horrors of war: murder and rape, the mangling and disfiguration of bodies, the looting of houses. It mostly showed the opposition to Carranza |
| What drawings represented the Carranzistas? | Caricatures of a victorious army leering officers and drunken, roistering soldiers, attended by ugly looking women/ |
| What happened to Orozco regarding his paintings on the opposing party group? | He recieved official warnings that he would be comfortable somehwere else. In other words, exile! So he left for California where he made a living with some of his paitings. |
| What do other artists say that Orozco painted? | Pulqueria walls! (but he denies it) |
| Where were some of Orozco's paintings displayed at before 1920? | On the walls of his brother's cafe, frequented by impoverished artists. |
| What did a crowd of people do with something from Orozco? | They subscribed to a weekly periodical which Orozco published for a time under the name of "El malora" ( the nuisance) |
| What physical abnormality did Orozco have that prevented friendly exchanges of converstaion? | His left hand was amputated when he was a child |
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