A one-armed painter who identified passionately with the Mexican Revolution of 1910, Orozco developed a highly stylized representational art that rendered Mexican people at once simply and heroically, especially rural working people, campesinos, who were the Revolution's heroes. A principal Mexican influence on him and the other muralists was the engraver Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913), whose last great subject was the Mexican Revolution.
Though Orozco made paintings, his most effective surface...