Requiem
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Title
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Requiem
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Rights
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Art Institute of Chicago.© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico City.
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Creator
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Orozco, José Clemente (1883-1949)
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Date
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1928 C.E.
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Description
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This commission describes the lives and struggles of Mexican peasants and the struggling class. It shows a group of men and women standing and sitting next to each other. Three of the people are standing, while one is kneeling and the other is sitting. The title helps further the meaning of the painting. A requiem is a mass of souls of the dead. Basically, the women and men are soul of the dead longing for a place to go. To infer the death may have been caused by their circumstances of being poor and the effects of the revolutionary war.
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Format
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Lithograph on paper.
303 × 404 mm (image/plate)
340 × 456 mm (sheet).
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Publisher
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Art Institute of Chicago.
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Contributor
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Adrianna Sharp
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Identifier
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Art Institute of Chicago.1943.1358
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Subject
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Men; women; kneeling; standing; wall; whole; dark; candles.
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Source
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Jpg file. Art Institute of Chicago. https://www.artic.edu/artworks/49611/requiem
Requiem