Tyrus Wong Research Paper

I will be discussing the artist Tyrus Wong. I will be going over his background, his artistic training, his mediums, styles, and influences, as well as his history of exhibition and reception. I chose Tyrus Wong because he worked as a film production for the Disney company and I am a huge fan of Disney, so I thought it would be good to learn more about an animator that worked there.
Tyrus Wong was born on October 15, 1910 in Taishan China. When he was nine years old, he moved to the United States with his father. In junior high, Wong was noticed for his artistic ability and was given a scholarship to attend the Otis Art Institute. Wong and his father did not have a lot of income so Wong worked as a janitor at the Otis Institute in order to better support his father. Once Wong graduated from Otis, the Walt Disney Studio hired him to draw the frames that are in between the main drawings of the animators. While doing that, Wong heard the Walt

Impressionism has a few major characteristics including using intense colors, artists painted what they saw, artists tried to capture the effects of light, and the artists tried to paint a moment in real life. Wong used each of these in his characteristics in his painting that inspired the background for Bambi. In his water colors he used bright and intense colors. He used a real life place that he saw to paint his background painting. He manipulated light to make his paintings for lifelike.
Tyrus Wong was mainly influenced by his friend who is a modernist painter, Stanton MacDonald-Wright. MacDonald-Wright often used rich colors and implemented Chinese work into his own art pieces. Wong liked both those aspects but especially the implementing Chinese work. Wong was also influenced by Chinese art and Chinese architecture and style. He based most of his work from Chinese environments he had previously seen. He also used many more Chinese artists as an influence on his