Tyrus Wong

Tyrus Wong is the one of unknown and unappreciated Chinese-American artist of the 20th century. He was known as a Hollywood studio artist, painter, printmaker, calligrapher, greeting-card illustrator and maker of fantastical kites. Wong left China at the age of 10 with his father and would never see his mother again. Once he arrived in America he lived in extreme poverty, but because of his character and a help of his father Tyrus Wong found himself in art. Eventually after years of poverty, discrimination and “chronic lack of recognition” he ended up working for Disney and Warner Brothers. Especially Wong became more known in certain circles after creating a film “Bambi”, where he was involved in every phase of production because aunting visual style, vastly different from anything Disney, as he was inspired by the paintings of the Song dynasty. However, as Asians were a novelty in animation industry in America a lot of co-workers could’ve easily flung a racial statement or epithet. Society didn’t care if person is talented or have a huge impact on something. Only …show more content…
Mainly, Nelson focus on creating art pieces, illustrations focused on African-Americans because as an African-American artist he feels that it his duty to create these artworks. Also, to demonstrate African-American experience and drama in history, so to make past generations feel free to talk about their past and families. In addition, Kadir Nelson paint artworks that, for example, based in 1930’s, but in his subject matter, he includes black and white people interaction as if it was real. Even though, today racism is not as bad as it used to be a decades ago, Nelson want African-Americans to feel a stronger bond to the society. And to present that no matter if you are black or white all of us are