Casa arruinada

José Clemente Orozco

1929

Lithograph

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Three figures, two seated and one lying down, are depicted in a desolate landscape. The figures are draped in dark, heavy cloth, obscuring their features. Three figures, two seated and one lying down, are depicted in a desolate landscape. The figures are draped in dark, heavy cloth, obscuring their features. 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