La retaguardia

José Clemente Orozco

1929

Lithograph

Minneapolis Institute of Art

A group of people, many wearing wide-brimmed hats, walk together. One person carries a child, and another sits atop a figure's shoulders. A group of people, many wearing wide-brimmed hats, walk together. One person carries a child, and another sits atop a figure's shoulders. José Clemente Orozco was one of the greats of Mexican muralism. This series of lithographs, printed in the late 1920s, is based on a set of drawings that Orozco was commissioned to make in 1926 as illustrations for a book about the Mexican Revolution, to be published in the United States. The brutality of Orozco’s composi- tions shows his dark and tragic vision of the revolution, which led to the series becoming known as “Horrores de la Revolución (Horrors of the Revolution).” The artist selected