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José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican caricaturist [1] and painter, who specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others.
José-Luis Orozco (born May 6, 1948) is a bilingual (Spanish-English) children's author, educator, and recording artist. [1]He has written five award-winning books, De Colores and Other Latin American Folk Songs for Children (Dutton, 1994), Diez Deditos — Ten Little Fingers (Dutton, 1997), Fiestas (Dutton, 2002), Rin Rin Rin Do Re Mi (Scholastic, 2005) and Sing With Me - Canta Conmigo ...
Juan Francisco de Aguilera (active in the last third of the 18th century) [4]; José de Alcíbar (ca 1730–1803) [4]; Ignacio Maria Barreda, single canvas casta painting 1777 ...
Prometheus (Spanish: Prometeo) is a fresco by Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco [4] depicting the Greek Titan Prometheus stealing fire from the heavens to give to humans. [2] It was commissioned for Pomona College 's Frary Dining Hall and completed in June 1930, [ 4 ] becoming the first modern fresco in the United States.
The Hospicio Cabañas (Spanish pronunciation: [osˈpisjo kaˈβaŋas]) or Cabañas Museum in Guadalajara, Jalisco was one of the oldest and largest orphanage and hospital complexes in the Americas. Now turned into a museum, the main hall hosts the magnum opus frescoes of muralist painter José Clemente Orozco .
José de Castro y Orozco (1808 in Granada [1] – 1869 in Madrid) was a Spanish politician, poet and playwright whose literary work is associated with the Romantic movement. He was a senator for life from 1853, [ 2 ] and briefly Minister of Justice in 1853.
Orozco painted the mural during the same time his fellow muralist, Diego Rivera, was working on his murals at the Rockefeller Center in New York. But while Rivera's portrait of Lenin led to his mural being painted over, Orozco was given full political freedom to paint as he chose.
José María of Manila (Spanish: José María de Manila : 5 September 1880 – 17 August 1936) was a Filipino-born Spanish Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He was martyred in the early phase of the Spanish Civil War , and is the third Filipino to have been declared blessed by the Roman Catholic Church .