Demons Seated at a Table

José Clemente OrozcoWW-1940-036949

1940·Opaque watercolor and brush and black ink, on cream wove paper·25.1 × 32.6 cm (9 15/16 × 12 7/8 in.)

<p>José Clemente Orozco was a Mexican social realist painter and satirical illustrator who, with Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, founded the Mexican mural movement. He lived in the United States from 1927 to 1934, completing influential murals in California, New York, and New Hampshire (at Dartmouth College). Throughout his career, he explored the theme of human suffering and promoted the political causes of oppressed peasants and workers.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1940
Medium: Opaque watercolor and brush and black ink, on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 25.1 × 32.6 cm (9 15/16 × 12 7/8 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: José Clemente Orozco

Artist

José Clemente Orozco

Painting

José Clemente Orozco, alongside Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, led the Mexican mural movement that established a powerful new visual vocabulary for post-Civil War Mexico and inspired socially-conscious artists north of the border and across the world. Of these three artists – Los Tres Grandes – whose monumental compositions foregrounded the indigenous warrior and the common laborer, Orozco's approach was the most complex, a hard and unsparing eye cast on the baseness and brutality of all sides of the revolution.

Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, Mexico

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