The life of Orozco is one of the great stories of modern art, filled with drama, adversity and remarkable achievement.
American Masters “Orozco: Man of Fire” airs Saturday, September 21 at 2 p.m. on WXXI-WORLD.
The life of Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949), a life filled with drama, adversity and triumph, is one of the great stories of the modern era. Despite poverty, childhood rheumatic fever that damaged his heart and an explosion in his youth that cost him his left hand, Orozco persisted in his wish to become an artist.
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