dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: spanisch (spa/es)
künstler: José Clemente Orozco
titel: Hidalgo. Los Parias. Las fantasmas de la religión en alianza con el militarismo. El carneval de las ideologías (Fuerzas tenebrosas. El carnaval de las ideologías / Circo poliítico. Luchas fratricidas)
jahr: 1936–37
+: Frescos
eingetragen von Alex Winiger am 03.01.2026, 22:07 (email senden)
geändert von Alex Winiger am 03.01.2026, 22:08 (email senden)
Picasso is the only other modern painter whose powers of invention are as awe-inspiring, yet, beside the mighty Hidalgo cycle in the stairwell of the Palacio de Gobierno, such a cerebral fantasy as the «Guernica» seems almost like a game with cutouts. The subject is the same – the horror and pity of war – but, to little in the common heritage, Orozco was able to take a number of perfectly familiar historical events (familiar to the Mexicans, that is) and on that «story line» magnify the human material into symbolic images. These images, far from losing their reality in the process of communication, become more personal as they become heroic. […]