2025-1-3
我们家领导对任何事都精益求精,喜欢鸡蛋里面挑骨头。抱怨说洛杉矶华美博物馆做的不够好,没有把洛杉矶最著名的华人迪斯尼动画师黄齐耀(Tyrus Wong,1910-2016)单独陈列展览。当在博物馆里碰到关荣熙的女儿关佳芮时,还不适时宜地问,您爸爸是画小鹿斑比的那个人吗?关女答曰:不是。

其实黄齐耀大名鼎鼎,是迪斯尼最传奇的中国人,他把宋画风格和技术成功地引入到迪斯尼二维动漫当中去。

和关荣熙一样,黄齐耀也活到105岁以上的艺术家。然而黄齐耀是一代移民,用的是假护照,坐过移民监。不像关荣熙是ABC二代移民,到了关荣熙的女儿这一代,都已经不说中文了。

黄齐耀和他的女儿Kim在2014年的MOCA年度传承慈善晚宴上,美国华人博物馆(MOCA)机构档案。 |
谁能想到,当年一个普普通通毫不起眼的乡村少年娃,因缘际会,偷渡到了美利坚,竟能成为一鸣惊人的动画大师。

Before he became an artist named Tyrus Wong, he was a boy named Wong Geng Yeo. He traveled across a vast ocean from China to America with only a suitcase and a few papers. Not papers for drawing which he loved to do but immigration papers to start a new life. Once in America, Tyrus seized every opportunity to make art, eventually enrolling at an art institute in Los Angeles. Working as a janitor at night, his mop twirled like a paintbrush in his hands. Eventually, he was given the opportunity of a lifetime—and using sparse brushstrokes and soft watercolors, Tyrus created the iconic backgrounds of Bambi.


要说在好莱坞艰苦打拼的黄柳霜是灰姑娘,那么在迪斯尼的黄齐耀就是鲤鱼跳上了龙门。都一而再再而三地上演了橘生淮南则为橘,生于淮北则为枳的古代寓言故事。
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