José Clemente Orozco (born November 23, 1883, in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco; died September 7, 1949, in Mexico City) was a Mexican social realist painter who specialized in bold murals. Orozco was fond of a theme of the human being versus the mechanical. He was besides the genre painter & lithographer. He exposed around Mexico City at a San Carlos Academy. By owning Diego Rivera, he was a leader of the Mexican renaissance. An significant distinction he got from either Rivera was his critical look at of the Mexican Revolution. When Diego was a bold, affirmative figure, touting a glory of a revolution, Orozco was less comfortable sustaining the all-fired toll the movement was ingesting.

By owning such Mexican creative person when Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Rufino Tamayo, he began to experiment with fresco painting in big bulwarks. One of his best known wall painting is The Epos of Western Civilization at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA. It was painted between 1932 and 1934 and covers almost 300 m² (3200 square feet) within Two dozen panels. A second of his wall painting is to exist as obtained at a New School for Social Research, now called a New School University.

His more works include Prometheus (1930), Zapata (1930), and Christ Destroying His Cross (1943).