José Orozco murals at Baker Library, Dartmouth College

Part of José Orozco Mural at Baker College Dartmouth Library, Table XIV / The New Migration of the Soul

José Clemente Orozco was a Mexican cartoonist and painter. Who specialized in political murals. He founded the Mexican Mural Renaissance with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and others. Orozco was Mexico's most sophisticated mural painter and was interested in the subject of human suffering. This artist was mostly influenced by symbolism and also did lithographic works.

Between 1922 and 1948, Orozco painted several murals in Mexico City, Orizaba, Clarmont, California, New York, Hanover, New Hampshire, Guadalajara, Jalisco, and Jekyll-Alpan, Michoacán. His drawings and paintings are on display at the Carillo Gill Museum in Mexico City and the Orozco Workshop Museum in Guadalajara. Orozco was known as a politically committed artist who promoted the political issues of the peasants and workers.

In the Baker Library at Dartmouth College, he created a vast glimpse of the history of the American continent, beginning with Catsal Quatel (the Margon god and feather of the Aztecs and Toltecs) and continuing with the arrival of the Spaniards in the United States and the establishment of the Catholic Church; And it ends with the self-destruction of the age of the machine, culminating in the crushing of a large Byzantine statue of Christ crucifying itself.

Prepared and arranged by: Narges Saheb Ekhtiari