Arnold Belkin (Canadian 1930-1992) Limited Edition Lithograph Printed in Colours Ed. 66/100, pencil signed lower right, edition number lower left; sans frame
22 in. x 29 ¾ in.
Canadian painter, draughtsman and sculptor, Arnold Belkin was also active in Mexico. After studying in Canada at the Vancouver School of Art (1944-5) and Banff School of Fine Arts (1947-8), he moved to Mexico City, where he continued his training at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura La Esmeralda (1948-9) and from 1950 worked as one of a team of assistants to David Alfaro Siqueiros.
He began soon after to produce murals, such as “The People Don’t Want War” and “Scenes from Don Quixote” (acrylic on concrete, 1957; Cuernavaca), following these with many others in Mexico, the USA, Canada, Cuba and Nicaragua.
He was also prolific as a draughtsman and easel painter, often working on a large scale, and to a lesser extent as a sculptor. Working in an Expressionist style and concentrating his attention on the human figure—sometimes contorted, flayed or treated in a robot-like manner—he treated Biblical themes as well as more contemporary subjects such as the victims of Nazism or of the bombing of Hiroshima.
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