Melchor Peredo
Oscar Melchor Peredo y Garcia (born 6 January 1927) is a Mexican muralist and a representative of the social realist school of mural painting in Mexico.At the age of eleven, inspired by the work of muralists Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, Melchor decided to become a painter.He painted his first mural in 1947 in a maternity clinic,[1] depicting the exploitation of marginalized workers in Mexico City.In 1953, he joined the Frente Nacional de Artes Plásticas and was commissioned as a representative to assist at the IV World Youth Festival for Peace in Romania.The art critic Judith Krauss made arrangements for him to stay in Bucharest but he decided that the most important movement was in Mexico and returned home to join a research workshop funded by the National Polytechnic Institute.