José Clemente Orozco Trivia Questions

Orozco was actually born in Zapotlán el Grande, Jalisco, not in the capital.

That mural was painted by Diego Rivera in 1933; Orozco's major U.S. murals include 'Prometheus' and 'The Epic of American Civilization'.

Diego Rivera painted several murals in the United States, including at the Detroit Institute of Arts and in San Francisco.

Orozco studied in Mexico and later in the United States but never studied under Picasso or lived in Paris.

This mural, completed between 1932 and 1934, is one of Orozco's most famous works and is housed at Dartmouth's Baker Library.

Orozco was born in 1883 in this town in Jalisco, not in Mexico City as often assumed.

This 1930 mural was Orozco's first major commission in the United States and depicts the Greek myth of Prometheus.

In 1904, while experimenting with fireworks for a carnival, Orozco suffered an explosion that cost him his left hand, which later influenced his expressive brushwork.