dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
name: Belkin (Belken Greenberg)
vorname: Arnold (Lewis)
wikidata-repräsentation: Q636218
biografische angaben: Calgary, December 9, 1930 – Mexico City, July 3, 1992
«Arnold Belkin has been referred to as the “Canadian son of Mexican muralism.” He is best known for his murals such as those at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Iztapalapa. There are thirty murals of the artist still in existence in Mexico, Nicaragua and the United States. He is credited with continuing the Mexican muralism tradition in the mid-20th century when the Generación de la Ruptura headed by artists like José Luis Cuevas and Rafael Coronel were taking the Mexican art scene away from muralism and its Marxist tendencies. Most of his murals are in public and educational spaces keeping the tradition of murals as a way to communicate with the masses and the following generations keeping murals an important part of Mexican culture. From the muralist generation, Belkin not only learned traditional painting techniques but also new ones, influenced by the work of Siqueiros. This included painting with air brushes and creating images using photographs projected on a wall as a base.
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At various points in his career, Belkin was a professor and teacher, mostly related to mural work. In 1956 he began teaching mural painting at the Universidad de las Americas. From 1971 to 1972 he gave painting classes at the New School for Social Research and The Art Students League in New York City. From 1972 to 1973 he was a guest lecturer at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. In the later 1970s to the 1980s he taught various workshops in Mexico resulting in collective murals done by students. These include a mural to journalist Francisco Zarco at Callejón Francisco Zarco (1977), a mural called La historia del movimiento obrero at Parque Juventino Rosas in the Magdalena Contreras borough and Raíces de las flores Nelhuayotl on the borough hall of Xochimilco all in Mexico City done by students from ENAP. From 1983 to 1984, he gave a course about the uses of photography in paintings at the Museo Universitario del Chopo.» (upclose.com)
«Of the artists associated with the ruptura, Belkin was the most closely affiliated with the New Left. He was one of several foreign artists who studied at Mexico City College and later trained with Siqueiros. Belkin was one of the last muralists to heroicize the Revolution, especially through the figure of Zapata.» (Oles, 2013, p. 343)