American Masters | The history behind one of Orozcos most iconic paintings | Season 21

Posted by Valentine Belue on Thursday, August 8, 2024

- [Orozco] Over the next decade Orozco paints Mexico's greatest public walls and tackles its most revered institutions.

His mural of Padre Hidalgo, the George Washington of Mexican Independence, depicts a fiery prophet brandishing a sword, purifying the world with bloodshed.

(eerie music) (music tempo increases) - Orozco is difficult and he refuses to make things look pretty.

They're angles, they're all angles and sharp, they're like daggers.

Everything comes to a point like a blade.

You know, he's slashing and Orozco refuses to let you relax and, you know, he's always sticking it to you.

He's not telling you he has a formula, that is the answer.

And he certainly mistrusts anyone else who says they do have the answer.

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