메리 블레어(Mary Blair), 미국, 일러스트레이터, 1911-1978

메리 블레어(Mary Blair), 미국, 일러스트레이터, 1911-1978

메리 블레어(Mary Blair), 미국, 일러스트레이터, 1911-1978

메리 블레어(Mary Blair), 미국, 일러스트레이터, 1911-1978

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메리 블레어(Mary Blair), 미국, 일러스트레이터, 1911-1978

메리 블레어(Mary Blair), 미국, 일러스트레이터, 1911-1978

메리 블레어(Mary Blair), 미국, 일러스트레이터, 1911-1978

메리 블레어(Mary Blair), 미국, 일러스트레이터, 1911-1978

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메리 블레어(Mary Blair), 미국, 일러스트레이터, 1911-1978

메리 블레어(Mary Blair), 미국, 일러스트레이터, 1911-1978

메리 블레어(Mary Blair), 미국, 일러스트레이터, 1911-1978

 

메리 블레어(Mary Blair), 미국, 일러스트레이터, 1911-1978

미국의 '메리 블레어'는 대학 졸업 후 수채화를 그리면서 화가로 인정받기 시작했습니다. 서른 살 무렵 월트 디즈니에 입사했죠. '콘셉트 아티스트'인 그녀는 영화의 전반적인 이미지와 캐릭터, 그리고 주된 색상을 결정했답니다.

 

'아기코끼리 담보', 이상한 나라의 앨리스', '신데렐라' 등 디즈니 많은 작품의 메인 이미지가 그녀의 붓에서 창작되었답니다.

 

글로 쓰인 동화를 이야기가 담긴 그림으로 표현하여 현대적인 애니메이션으로 만들어지는 과정에서, 그녀의 상상력과 뛰어난 색감이 중요한 역할을 하였습니다. 남미를 여행하면서 모아 온, 화려하고 대담한 색상들을 디즈니 영화에 담아내기도 했습니다.

 

그리고 그녀는 어린이 동화책의 삽화에서부터 테마파크에 이르기까지 많은 분야에서 자신의 예술적 감각을 발휘한 미술가입니다.

 

                                                                                                          About Her

 

An imaginative color stylist and designer, Mary Blair helped introduce modern art to Walt Disney and his Studio, and, for nearly 30 years, he touted her inspirational work for his films and theme parks alike. Animator Marc Davis, who put Mary’s exciting use of color on par with Matisse, recalled, “She brought modern art to Walt in a way that no one else did. He was so excited about her work.” Animator Frank Thomas added:

 

“Mary was the first artist I knew of to have different shades of red next to each other. You just didn’t do that! But Mary made it work.”

 

Walt connected with Mary’s fresh, childlike art style. As Disney Imagineering artist Roland Crump once told animation historian John Canemaker, “The way she painted—in a lot of ways she was still a little girl. Walt was like that… You could see he could relate to children—she was the same way.”

 

Born in McAlester, Oklahoma, in 1911, the inherently gifted artist won a scholarship to Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. After graduation in 1933, at the height of the Depression, Mary took a job in the animation unit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer rather than pursue her dream of a fine arts career. In 1940, she joined the Walt Disney Studio and worked on a number of projects, including the “Baby Ballet,” a never-produced segment for a proposed second version of Fantasia.

 

In 1941, she joined the Disney expedition that toured South America for three months; her watercolors so captured the spirit of the Latin countries that she was named art supervisor on The Three Caballeros and Saludos Amigos. Mary’s unique color and styling greatly influenced such Disney postwar productions as Song of the South, Make Mine Music, Melody Time, So Dear to My Heart, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan. She also contributed to special shorts, including The Little House and Susie, the Little Blue Coupe.

 

During a break from Disney, Mary found a successful career as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. Among her works were the illustrations for several Little Golden Books, some of which, including I Can Fly, are still in print today.

 

Walt later asked Mary to assist in the design of the it’s a small world attraction for the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair; the final result was an attraction that is purely Mary Blair in its style and concept. Over the years, Mary contributed to the design of many exhibits, attractions, and murals for the theme parks in California and Florida, including the fanciful murals in the Grand Canyon Concourse at Walt Disney World’s Contemporary Resort Hotel.

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