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Catharsis

mural by Orozco

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  • In José Clemente Orozco: Mature work and later years

    …where he painted the mural Catharsis for the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City (1934). In this eschatological work he depicted a laughing prostitute lying among the debris of civilization’s last cataclysm. The pessimism that increasingly marked his work finally culminated in his Guadalajara murals (1936–39), which he painted…

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