Best known as a muralist and one of Mexico’s Tres Grandes (along with fellow painters Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros), Orozco was shaped by the Mexican Revolution, his imagery marked by its violence. Fire, and figures surrounded by flames, recur in his work. Orozco’s mural representing Prometheus, the Greek Titan who stole fire from heaven and gave it to human beings, was unveiled at Pomona College in Claremont, California in 1930. Nine years later, he completed his masterpiece, El Hombre de Fuego (Man of Fire), filling the dome of a hospital in Guadalajara. This small canvas relates to its central figure.