El requiem

José Clemente Orozco

1928

Lithograph

Minneapolis Institute of Art

A group of figures, some cloaked and holding candles, stand in a dark doorway. One figure kneels in the foreground, and another is partially visible in the background. A group of figures, some cloaked and holding candles, stand in a dark doorway. One figure kneels in the foreground, and another is partially visible in the background. 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 compositions shows his dark and tragic vision of the revolution, which led to the series becoming known as “Horrores de la Revolución (Horrors of the Revolu