Tepic

OROZCO

He has a sharp eye for the injustices in the world and he flays them with a fury. He thinks he knows what is good for the Mexican people and he thinks he knows what is bad, and he has the courage to shout in his frescoes and call a thousand curses upon all the evils that beset and have beset his people.

The paintings of Orozco will be an inspiration to generations of world painters to come. In México, with the tremendous stimulus given art by Rivera, Orozco, and other famous painters, art takes its rightful place in the affairs of man. The artist at last becomes a personage, a power for good in a man's world.

Especially powerful are Orozco's murals in the public library in Jiquilpan, Michoacán, the little Indian village where former President Cárdenas was born.

José Clemente Orozco is another of México's sons who stands among the foremost of artists in the world today. Some of his finest murals are in Guadalajara. Left, are parts of his great frescoes in the Palacio de Gobierno. For sheer power, imagination, and brilliant execution Orozco has no peer. To him all the isms are vile things.

Below, are parts of murals in the theatre of the University of Guadalajara. The circular fresco is in the dome of the theatre and represents Mexican youth awakened to thought.

Tepic (Tay-peek) is the state capital of Nayarit (Nie-yar-eat) one of the most hidden and sequestered states in México. This little city is in the high mountains, and only the railroad connects it with the outside world. Life is unhurried here and the natives do not seem to know of the busy world outside. If they did, they wouldn't care. It has colonial charm and is a refreshing experience for the traveler a little bit tired of the busy hum of modern places. Tepic still possesses much of the quaintness of yesterday.