Casa arruinada (Ruined House)

Orozco began working with lithography while simultaneously exploring architectural theory. These studies encouraged him to think about deconstructing the large structure in order to rethink it, piece by piece. In this way, Orozco began to use "samples" or excerpts from his murals as lithographic prints to highlight their broader political statements. Ruined House (Casa Arruinada) formed part of his "Horrors of the Revolution" series. Orozco's dark and troubling image underscores his bleak portrayal of post-revolutionary Mexico even as it offers another reading of Mexican identity (mexicanidad) in which people and landscape echo each other endlessly. Ruined House (Casa Arruinada) provides the viewer with a focused insight into the complexity and depth of Orozco's revolutionary murals as well as his notably pessimistic political perspective.