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Wong retired from the film industry in the late 1960s, but continued his work as an artist, spending most of his time designing kites. He also continued to paint, sketch, and design ceramics well into his 90s. He was the subject of the 2015 documentary film, Tyrus, by filmmaker Pamela Tom (譚宇瓊). Wong died on December 30, 2016, at the age ...
Synopsis. Tyrus Wong immigrates to the U.S. from Guangzhou as a boy. Though living in poverty, his father, encourages Wong's unique talent for drawing. Inspired by the art of the Song Dynasty and abstract Western painters like Picasso and Whistler, Wong employed simple brushstrokes, using watercolors and pastels, to create lush forests and green meadows.
Tyrus Wong (1910-2016), who emigrated to the US from China, is considered to be one of the influential artists of the 20th century. [129] He was a muralist for the Works Progress Administration . As well as having been a production illustrator for films such as Bambi (1942), some of his paintings are now or have been exhibited in art museums.
Water to Paper, Paint to Sky: The Art of Tyrus Wong (March 26, 2015 – September 13, 2015) Memory Prints: The Story World of Phillip Chen (September 25, 2014 – January 3, 2015) Waves of Identity: 35 Years of Archiving (September 25, 2014 – January 3, 2015) Oil and Water: Reinterpreting Ink (April 24, 2014 – September 14, 2014)
Barry Kooser. Barry R. Kooser is an American artist, painter, and educator who worked at Walt Disney Feature Animation Studios between 1992 and 2003 as a background artist on films such as The Lion King, Pocahontas, Mulan, Lilo & Stitch, and as background supervisor on Brother Bear. After leaving Disney, he worked independently as a painter ...
Following his work on Sleeping Beauty, Norman was drafted, and returned to the studio after his service in 1960 to work on One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) and The Sword in the Stone (1963). [4] After Walt Disney saw some of the inter-office sketches Norman made to entertain his co-workers, he was reassigned to the story department , where ...
Eileen Chang (张爱玲, a.k.a. 张煐) – writer. Kang-i Sun Chang (孫康宜) – writer and literary scholar. Lan Samantha Chang – writer; director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Victoria Chang – poet, children's writer, and essayist. Ted Chiang (姜峯楠) – speculative fiction writer. Frank Chin (趙健秀) – novelist, playwright ...
Tyrus Wong – Chinese-born American artist. His paper son name was Look Tai Yow. [22] Jim Wong-Chu – Canadian author, poet, and community activist of Chinese descent. Jim Wong-Chu came to Canada in 1953 at age four as a paper son, to live with his aunt and uncle in British Columbia. [23] [24]