Baile de pepenches I

Orozco, José Clemente (1883-1949)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
1913-1916
Height:
23.2 cm  (9 1/8 in.)
Width:
32.3 cm  (12 11/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
watercolor / aquarelle on paper
Place of creation:
Ciudad de México

Additional titles

Dance of the cadgers I

Description

The title "Baile de Pepenches I" is a euphemism since the watercolor presents the dance of three couples of lower class, especially prostitutes. This subject was of special concern to Orozco during this artistic period, to present modern life and to break with bourgeois moral conceptions.

Iconclass

44C312
Political caricatures and satires
43C9
Dancing

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 2
page with links to numerous works by Orozco
image link 3
direct image link

Bibliographic references

Aubry Ortegón, Kenia Gabriela. "Caricatura política, episodios revolucionarios y prostitutas: Una singularidad ideológica vuelta imagen", ULÚA Revista de Historia, Sociedad y Cultura 2 (2015) 81-126. (This essay is available as open access at http://revistas.uv.mx/index.php/ulua/article/view/1464, last accessed: 9 April 2016).

González Mello, Renato. Orozco, ¿pintor revolucionario?. (México: UNAM-Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, 1995).

Lumbreras, Ernesto. La mano siniestra de José Clemente Orozco: Derivaciones, transbordos y fugas (México, D.F.: Siglo XXI Editores, Universidas Autónoma de Sinaloa, 2015).

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4916