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Wong Chaiyiu. Tyrus Wong (October 25, 1910 – December 30, 2016) was a Chinese-born American artist. He was a painter, animator, calligrapher, muralist, ceramicist, lithographer and kite maker, as well as a set designer and storyboard artist. One of the most-influential and celebrated Asian-American artists of the 20th century, [1] Wong was ...
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.
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)
The Three Friends of Winter is an art motif that comprises the pine, bamboo, and plum. [ 1] The Chinese celebrated the pine, bamboo and plum together, for they observed that unlike many other plants these plants do not wither as the cold days deepen into the winter season. [ 2] Known by the Chinese as the Three Friends of Winter, they later ...
Sherab Palden Beru. 1911–2012. 100/101. Tibetan thangka artist [17] Vittore Bocchetta. 1918–2021. 102. Italian sculptor, painter and academic [18] Gottfried Böhm.
American. Known for. Watercolor painting. Awards. Guggenheim Fellowship, 1928. Eliot O'Hara (June 14, 1890 – July 30, 1969) was an American artist and educator known for his masterful watercolors, especially his impressionistic landscapes. The Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Maine has over 120 of his watercolors representing all aspects of ...
The Chinese American Museum (Chinese: 華美 博物館; abbreviated CAM) is a museum located in Downtown Los Angeles as a part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument. It is dedicated to the history and experience of Chinese Americans in the state of California, the first such museum in Southern California. It presents exhibits of ...
Paper Son. Paper sons or paper daughters is a term used to refer to Chinese people who were born in China and illegally immigrated to the United States and Canada [1] by purchasing documentation which stated that they were blood relatives to Chinese people who had already received U.S. or Canadian [2] citizenship or residency.