John orozco autobiography

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Translated by Robert C. Introduction by John Palmer Leeper. Series: Texas Pan American Series. He is a writer who recounts the history of his period from a personal point of view and yet scarcely mentions himself. The character that emerges is charming. It is that of a man strong but retiring, sharply critical of what he disapproves yet generous in praise of what he admires, decided in his views but modest in his assumptions and given to understatement in describing his own activities, averse to war and political struggle yet eager for conflict of ideas, always dedicated to the welfare of humanity.

The artistic eminence of José Clemente Orozco (–) is such that he has been called “the greatest painter the Americas have produced.”.

Through the details of day-by-day living, he presents the panorama of the Mexican Revolution and of events in other parts of the world to which he traveled. By night in dark streets the sound of gunplay, followed by screams, blasphemies, and vile insults. Breaking windows, sharp blows, cries of pain, and shots again. Orozco also makes some penetrating observations on art itself.

Although he emphasizes individuality and freedom from tradition in art, he abhors unschooled art, especially such extremes as primitive Impressionism and other groups that lack instruction in the general principles of art, in technique, in theory of color, in perspective. Blessed are the idiots and the cretins, for masterpieces of painting shall issue from their hands!

Taste in art can come only through understanding of the purpose and the techniques of art—through knowledge.