MoMA- Jose Clemente Orozco

This artwork was created by Jose Clemente Orozco who was a Mexican artist that created political murals during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. The painting shown above is called “Dive Bomber and Tank”. It was created in 1940 and is a painting that is made out of fresco, which can be spilt by six panels and can be assorted in anyway. If looked at closely you can see the painting consists of materials of war like tanks tracks, airplane tails and wings, and also chains. Another element added to this painting are faces of either humans or masks that show distress and hardship which is probably because of the havoc caused by the war scene. Human legs are also painted into this piece of art, which are put upwards maybe because Jose was trying to show some more negative ideas of what war brings to us and in his perception it seems to be a dead body. Jose did choose to put the legs on top of the set of tank tracks so another thought would be that he was showing a body getting run over by the tank. Another aspect I noticed in his painting was that the face in the middle has what seems to be a horn sticking out his head which makes me wonder if Jose was trying to implement the devil into his painting as well. To top everything off the only color that stands out in his painting is the red which resembles anger, violence and danger which goes hand in hand with his idea of showing war.

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