Arie Aroch, (Nisselevitch), an Israeli painter and diplomat, was born in 1908, in Kharkov, Russia. He was awarded The Israel Prize for painting in 1971.

Aroch was born to a well-to-do family and received a modern, Zionist education. In 1924 the family immigrated to Israel where he attended the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. He participated in the Meyerowitz Artists Group in Zichron Yakov.

In the mid-thirties, after studying art in Paris, Aroch adopted a moderate expressionistic style. During the forties he showed a tendency for schematic drawing and the dissolution of the landscape to geometric shapes. In the fifties he adopted a naive painting technique, stressing the decorative aspect of painting...