Street Corner, Brick Building (Esquina, edificio de ladrillo)

© José Clemente Orozco / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / SOMAAP, Mexico
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Street Corner, Brick Building (Esquina, edificio de ladrillo)

Mexico, 1929
Paintings
Tempera, oil on board
Frame: 27 1/2 × 21 1/4 × 2 in. (69.85 × 53.98 × 5.08 cm) Canvas: 18 13/16 × 13 5/8 in. (47.78 × 34.61 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art Deaccession Fund (M.2008.16)
Latin American Art
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

José Clemente Orozco was, with Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), one of "Los Tres Grandes" (the Big Three) of Mexican muralists....
José Clemente Orozco was, with Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), one of "Los Tres Grandes" (the Big Three) of Mexican muralists. Orozco, however, was opposed to the political and propagandistic quality of the work of Rivera and Siqueiros. "A painting should not be a commentary, but the fact itself," the artist said. During his stay in New York City from 1927 to 1934, Orozco created a number of works depicting Manhattan. The city, a symbol of modernity, is often presented as an alienating place filled with estranged people downtrodden by massive architecture. Orozco advocated the creation of a new art that would be uniquely American, one not tied to European or Mesoamerican traditions "If new races have appeared in the New World", said Orozco, "such races have the unavoidable duty to produce New Art." Here, Manhattan becomes a symbol of continental renewal. Ilona Katzew, 2008
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Bibliography

  • Affron, Matthew, Mark A. Castro, Dafne Cruz Porchini, and Renato González Mello, eds. Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; Mexico City: Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, 2016.