In 1965 , he was commissioned by the Mexican government to create a mural for the city of Concepción , Chile , even though the project was threatened by a boycott by artists affiliated with the Generación de la Ruptura . The resulting mural was a gift to the people of that region in southern Chile who had suffered a major earthquake in 1960 . The resulting work was 300m ² on a wall of the Casa de la Cultura José Clemente Orozco at the Universidad de Concepción . For the university 's 75th anniversary , the image was reproduced on a Chilean stamp and in 1996 , it was named the most beautiful mural in the world at an event in Vienna . The work was damaged during another earthquake , this time in 2010 , but restored in 2012 in a joint Mexican-Chilean effort
major earthquake in 1960
1960 Valdivia earthquake
Jorge González Camarena