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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 ...
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)
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]
The name is widely used in Hong Kong and some of the Commonwealth countries. Many migrants moved to parts of south-east Asia, Europe, Canada, Australia and the United States . Wong is also a rare English surname derived from Old English "Geong" meaning young. However, Young is the more common surname from this origin.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Sherab Palden Beru. 1911–2012. 100/101. Tibetan thangka artist [17] Vittore Bocchetta. 1918–2021. 102. Italian sculptor, painter and academic [18] Gottfried Böhm.