Arnold Belkin - Mexican Artists

Arnold Belkin (1930 in Calgary, Alberta - 1992 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal) was a Mexican painter, who has frequently known as “The Canadian Son of Mexican Muralism”. Arnold’s father was a Russian Jew and his mother was an English Jewish woman (Greenberg).
In his youth he attended the Vancouver School of Art and developed a deep interest for Muralism. Choosing Muralism as his way, he determined to meet and learn in person from the great painter of Muralism at that time, the Mexicans Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
Arriving in Mexico City at the age of 18 years, Belkin going to La Esmeralda Art School and the INBA School for Painting and Sculpture. He also learned modern art methods at the Jose Gutierrez’ Workshop on Materials and Plastics.
He painted in that year La Bahia de Acapulco at the Continental Hilton Hotel (damaged in the earthquake during 1985) and was named Professor of Mural Techniques at the Universidad de las Americas. His famous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a moveable mural, was painted in 1959.
In the last decade of his life, Belkin’s prolific work was distinguished by great dynamism and theme innovation. He created hundreds of works, not only murals at government buildings and universities, but painted oils, acrylics and other media, plus sculpture. He died at 62