Saturday, September 9, 2017. They created works in response to Pomona College’s famed 1930 mural of Prometheus by Jos e Clemente Orozco. (Photo by James Carbone for the Inland Valley Daily ...

He painted a fresco there: “Prometheus,” the only Orozco mural in Southern California and one of only three in the United States. Eventually, Orozco--along with Diego Rivera and David Alfaro ...

Orozco, who may have identified with Prometheus, seems to say that it’s up to the masses to accept or reject the gift — or his mural. An impressed Spaulding, the architect, told Time magazine ...

Orozco chose Prometheus because he was punished for bringing knowledge to humans—an appropriate theme for a college campus. The mural’s message, she told me, is that “even though knowledge ...

This perception seems to be confirmed by Tamayo’s own words, when he writes of his own mural : «That the light that seems to irradiate out of the fire of my badly lit ‘Prometheus’ may illuminate the ...