Untitled
Series Title20 Dibujos de Jose Clemente Orozco de la Exposicion de Agosto de 1945
Artist
José Clemente Orozco
(Mexican, 1883 - 1949)
Date1945
MediumLithograph
DimensionsSheet: 21 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches (55.25 x 40.01 cm)
Credit LineGift of Harrison Jedel in honor of the 75th anniversary of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Object number2008.76.13
Signedon back, signed lr in ink "JC Orozco 1945"
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DescriptionPrint depicting a figure lying on a floor with feet upGallery LabelUntitled depicts abstract figural forms struggling mightily on the ground. Along with Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco established the Mexican Mural Renaissance. All were devoted to politically charged, social realist art focused on the themes of human suffering and ennoblement. Orozco was particularly concerned with the fight of the oppressed against the oppressor. The abstract forms and forcefully drawn marks in Untitled convey a sense of human and animal forms locked in an intense battle. It embodies dialectic oppositions:
man versus nature and reason versus instinct.
man versus nature and reason versus instinct.
Copyright© José Clemente Orozco / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico
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