Ruined House

Title: Ruined House
Rights: Art Institute of Chicago. © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico City
Creator: Orozco, José Clemente (1883-1949)
Date: 1928 C.E.
Description: The commissions shows the hardship of the Mexican life after post- revolutionary. The image includes a man, woman, and a child. They are setting outside in the open because they lost their home and farmland. The open can be described as the desert, they are sitting on dirt. Behind them can be inferred as the ruined house, only the roof can be see or it can just be a rock. They seem to have no purpose or hope, telling by the man laying faced down. They lost their identity, hitting at having no face. However, there is still hope for the child which shows some feature of their face. To sum up, it reflect the feeling of Mexican losing their live because of the affects of the post - revolutionary war.
Format: Lithograph on Paper. 325 x 455 mm
Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago.
Contributor: Adrianna Sharp
Identifier: Art Institute of Chicago. 1982. 424
Subject: women; child; man; covered; hiding; sitting; dirt; desert; rock; no chairs; no home; sky; black n white
Source: Jpg file. Art Institute of Chicago.
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/3309/ruined-house