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Discussion 3: The Orozco Murals at Dartmouth College

During the fall term I walked through the Orozco room quickly because I had heard about it. I didn't pay much attention to detail and didn't have context for the murals so I didn't think much of them.

When we discussed them the other day in context and I way paying attention it really helped. I really liked the murals. I found the use of colour and their change over the panels to be very effective. I also found the transition from olden day to modern day interesting, especially for comparing the ones that were the same like "Gods of the old age and Gods of the modern age". I found the weapons in the very first painting we looked at to be very striking because of the sheer amount there were. In the corner there were so many knives all pointed in the same direction and that really had an effect on how I viewed the painting.

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