Everyone knows their works, but hardly a name Mary Blair. Today, the graphic would be 100 years old and Google has become its dedicated on this occasion a doodle. She enchanted the world with their imagination and created legendary Disney animated characters. Only experts know the artist who drew for years for Disney films.
1911 Mary Blair was in modest circumstances in Oklahoma came into the world, with seven years she moved with her family to California. Very early on he showed her talent. With a scholarship she succeeded in enrolling in the School of Art in Los Angeles. After her studies, Mary Blair initially worked for the studios of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
In 1940 she moved to Walt Disney, whose studios and her husband Lee Everett Blair worked.
1943 came after a trip to South America, the first Disney movie with Blair's artistic director, the 43-minute film "Saludos Amigos" (German title "Three Saludos Amigos"), in which Blair the cartoon character Goofy can smoke a cigarette - a scandal ! The scene was censored.
Colors it had the eccentric artist, who chose her clothes and likes to bunt on the color contact lenses voted exactly impressed. Her intuition and brilliant use of color and the mix of cloudy and strong shades were popular Walt Disney - and were influential in the following style Disney animation.
During her tenure at Disney Blair was responsible for films that still knows almost everyone: "Cinderella," "Alice in Wonderland" and most recently "Peter Pan".
Afterwards, Blair made a self-employed graphic designer. In 1964, she again worked for the company that designed the ride "It's a small world" for the world exhibition in New York.
Today, the original - a boat trip across the continent - in California's Disneyland. Copies of which are installed in the parks in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Paris.
On 26 The artist died in July 1978 in Soquel (California, USA). After her death, she was "Disney Legend" by the Walt Disney Company honored with the title.
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