It’s Mary Blair’s birthday and if Google can celebrate her, so can we. And so should we all. As an animator and designer, Blair is among the most influential artistic figures of the mid-century era, an icon and the creator of some of the loveliest art you’ll ever see.
Words can not describe how impressed I am, till this day, with her work on Sleeping Beauty. Her work is a revelation.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences posted some video of last week’s Mary Blair’s World of Color tribute:
http://www.oscars.org/events-exhibitions/events/2011/10/blair.html