奥斯卡奖得主华裔艺术家郑华明去世 （zt)

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奥斯卡奖得主华裔艺术家郑华明去世




美国之音记者书国符12月24日洛杉矶报道说，曾经赢得奥斯卡奖荣誉的华裔艺术家郑华明星期一在北加州去世。他的许多作品将随着好莱坞的经典名片流传下去。(chinesenewsnet.com)


早在导演李安赢得奥斯卡最佳外语片奖的40年前，一位名叫郑华明的华裔艺术家已经获得1960年奥斯卡最佳视觉效果奖的荣誉，作品是科幻片时间机器。(chinesenewsnet.com)

从小具有艺术天才(chinesenewsnet.com)

郑华明1917年出生在夏威夷，是第三代的华人，父母都是艺术家，3岁的时候搬到旧金山，经常在父母开设的茶艺馆涂涂抹抹。六岁的时候，艺术家史龙看到他在餐巾上的作品，开始教他画画。(chinesenewsnet.com)

郑华明9岁就在旧金山的画廊举行个人作品展览。他后来和史龙夫妇搬到好莱坞，从16岁开始为好莱坞创造道具。1939年进入迪斯尼公司，后来他和德州女子泰勒结婚。(chinesenewsnet.com)

科尔克德是旧金山地区的动画家。他说：“郑华明21岁罹患小儿麻痹症，毕生穿戴支架鞋套。尽管身体残障，还要面对种族问题的障碍，他的成就超过许多其他的特效艺术家。(chinesenewsnet.com)

电影电视特殊效果先驱(chinesenewsnet.com)

爱琳．安德森是旧金山的美国华人历史学会的博物馆主任。爱琳认为郑华明最大的艺术成就是作为电影和电视特殊效果的先驱。(chinesenewsnet.com)

他出名的作品包括停格动画三只小熊，他为迪斯尼动画小木偶和小鹿斑比制作模型，他参与了电影拇指仙童、劳博士的七个面孔的制作。(chinesenewsnet.com)

尤伯连纳主演的国王与我里面的面具，以及浩劫余生里的人猿面具都是他设计的。伊丽莎白泰勒主演埃及艳后，片中所佩带的头饰也出自郑华明的巧思。(chinesenewsnet.com)

赢得OSCAR最佳视觉效果奖(chinesenewsnet.com)

1960年的科幻片时间机器为他带来奥斯卡奖最佳视觉效果奖的荣誉，美国电影艺术科学院颁发的表扬状现在还展示在旧金山的美国华人历史学会。(chinesenewsnet.com)

郑华明夫妇1970年搬到北加州的小镇卡梅尔，他和泰勒结婚将近60年，感情非常好。泰勒6年前过世，郑华明星期一清晨告诉照顾他的女士说，他的太太又在搔他的脚趾头，几个小时后，他就去世了。(chinesenewsnet.com)

当天上午加州地区发生地震。郑华明的艺术家朋友威尔布拉丝说，他本来要打电话给郑华明，问他有没有感觉到地震，而现在，他想也许是郑华明的艺术成就撼动了大地。(chinesenewsnet.com)

安德森说：“郑华明遭遇到很多困难，都克服过来，他树立了榜样，告诉我们，任何人坚持艺术创作，一样可以成功。”

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Here's a partial filmography:

Short Films:
The Puppetoons(1941-46) incl. "John Henry"
The Way Of Peace (1946) Produced by Wah Ming Chang and Blanding Sloan
The Three Dwarfs (stop-motion puppets)
Suzy Snowflake (stop-motion puppets) This and The Three Dwarfs were 3-minute promotional films for a music company.
Alphabet Rollcall (year unknown) produced by Wah Ming Chang, an educational film
six films for John Sutherland Productions, including The Lady Said No
and The Flying Jeep. Wah Chang was part of the production crew.
It's Only a Paper Moon (year unknown) Produced by Wah Ming Chang, starring Glen Chang.
Nasa training film (1969) for the Apollo astronauts
Dinosaurs, the Terrible Lizards (1970) (stop-motion puppets)
Ecology-Wanted Alive (1970) Produced by Wah and Glen Chang

Feature Films and Television Shows:
Pinocchio (1939) reference models
Bambi (1942) reference model
Fantasia (1942) sequences: The Rite Of Spring, A Night On Bald Mountain
Variety Girl (1947)
Cat-Women of the Moon ...aka Rocket to the Moon (1953)
Tarantula (1955) giant spider puppet
The King and I (1956) Siamese masks
The Black Scorpion (1957)
Tom Thumb (1958) animator
Monster From Green Hell (1958)
Goliath And The Dragon (1960) dragon animation puppet, full size dragon head
Time Machine, The (1960)
Dinosaurus! (1960)
Spartacus (1960)
Can Can (1960) special costumes
Atlantis, The Lost Continent (1961) stop-motion cut from film
Master of the World (1961) special miniature effects
The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse (1962)
Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962) rat monster puppet
Jack The Giant Killer (1962) animation puppet design and fabrication
Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm (1963) animation puppet design and fabrication
Cleopatra (1963) special costumes
The Outer Limits (1963-1965)
Star Trek TV Series
Power, The (1968)
Planet Of The Apes (1968) special props
Seven Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
Around The World Under The Sea (1966)
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968) (matching special effects props to previously shot footage for this Roger Corman re-work of a Russian film. This version was directed by Peter Bogdonavitch. )
Land of the Lost TV series (1974) dinosaur model designer

Commercials:
Pillsbury Doughboy
Purina Chuckwagon
McDonald’s
Mattel
Total Cereal
Wonderbread
Campy Marshmallows
Dole Pineapple
marching beer bottles for a beer commercial

Documentary interviews:
Fantasy Film World of George Pal, The (1985)
Time Machine: The Journey Back (1993)

 

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The Chinese Historical Society of America presents...
"Wah Ming Chang and Tyrus Wong: Two Behind the Scenes"
Opening July 15th, 2003


The Chinese Historical Society of America Museum and Learning Center proudly announces the opening of the long awaited exhibition, Wah Ming Chang and Tyrus Wong: Two Behind the Scenes, on Tuesday, July 15, in the CHSA Stage Gallery. On display will be the work of two supremely gifted artists whose contributions to American filmmaking are legendary. The public will get the rare opportunity to look at many of the sketches, designs, paintings, models, and objects created by Chang and Wong for various films. Among the many films that Wong worked on were: The Sands of Iwo Jima, Calamity Jane, Rebel Without a Cause, Around the World in 80 Days, Auntie Mame, P.T. 109, Harper, and The Wild Bunch. Viewers to the museum will be able to see sketches that he created for Walt Disney’s Bambi, as well as examples of his designs for Hallmark greeting cards and dinnerware, and a large 50 foot kite that will greet visitors in the main hallway.


Chang also began his career working for Disney, creating models for Pinocchio and designing sequences for Fantasia. Often handling the special effects for such ground-breaking films as The Time Machine and The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, Chang excelled in his use of stop-motion photography that was rivaled at the time perhaps only by Ray Harryhausen. Chang also created a sensational array of masks, costumes, and props used in many of the most popular movies of the 1950s and 60s, including the original version of Planet of the Apes. Among the diverse objects on display which Chang created will be an original puppet from the movie, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, a mask from Tom Thumb, two masks from the MGM musical The King and I (used in the unforgettable “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” production), the cover from Life magazine with the elaborate headdress that he designed for Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra, and props (such as the phaser and communicator) from the popular Star Trek television series starring William Shatner.


The Chinese Historical Society of America (CHSA) Museum and Learning Center is dedicated to promoting the history, art and cultural legacy of the Chinese in the United States. Along with the permanent exhibition, "The Chinese of America: Toward a More Perfect Union," in the main gallery, the Museum also features the work of Chinese American visual artists in its rotating galleries.

 

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more about Wah Ming Chang :
http://www.colemanzone.com/Time_Machine_Project/wah_chang.htm

 

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This went out on the A.P. wire :

Posted on Tue, Dec. 23, 2003

Academy Award-winning animator and costume designer dies

Associated Press

CARMEL, Calif. - Wah Ming Chang, an Academy Award-winning animator and a Carmel Valley artist, died Monday. He was 86.

Chang worked as an artist for more than seven decades. He worked on three Walt Disney films and as a Hollywood costume designer and sculptor.

Born in Honolulu to two artists, Chang moved to San Francisco with his family in the early 1920s. In San Francisco, they managed the Ho Ho Tea Room, a hangout for bohemian artists. Artists and journalist Blanding Sloan, a regular customer, took an interest in the 6-year-old Chang after he discovered him sketching portraits on the back of his mother's menus.

By the age of 9, Chang had his own show at a downtown San Francisco art gallery. After his mother died, Chang moved with Sloan and his wife to their Hollywood home and started creating film sets for the Hollywood Bowl at the age of 16.

Chang met his wife, Glenella Taylor, while working with Sloan in Dallas on "The Calvacade of Texas," a show celebrating the Texas Centennial, in 1936. When a 21-year-old Chang started working for Anaheim-based Disney in 1939, he was the youngest member of Disney's Effects and Model Department.

Chang developed polio and lost the use of his legs shortly after starting at Disney but managed to recover after a 21-day hospitalization. He married Taylor in Texas in 1941 - California law at the time did not allow marriage between a Chinese and a Caucasian.

Some of his more notable works include a stop.m.otion animation production of "The Three Bears." Chang created wooden models of Pinocchio and Bambi so that Disney animators could study body movements. He also contributed to "Bozo the Clown," "Tom Thumb," "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm" and "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao."

Chang designed costumes for the film "The King and I" starring Yul Brenner, created masks for "The Planet of the Apes" and made Elizabeth Taylor's headdress in "Cleopatra." He sculpted a series of heads to animate the first Pillsbury Doughboy and made creatures for the television series "The Outer Limits" and "Star Trek." It was his work on "The Time Machine" that earned him an Oscar for special effects.

Chang is survived by a half-sister, Lana Price of Carmel, and several nieces and nephews. His wife of nearly 60 years died in 1997.

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© 2003 AP Wire and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved.

 

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谢谢老五介绍这位艺术大师的生平.