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Walt Disney Classics Collection Announces Pirates Series
Coming to Disneyland and Walt Disney World in October is the first in a new series of Pirates of the Caribbean sculptures. Inspired by the work of Disney legend Marc Davis, the first piece in the new series in the Walt Disney Classics Collection was sculpted by artist Jacqueline Perreault Gonzalez.
Images © Disney
About Marc Davis
Known as one of Disney's Nine Old Men, he began his career at the Studio in December 1935, working on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He developed such memorable characters as young Bambi and Thumper, and gained a reputation for animating such distinctive female characters as Cinderella, Tinker Bell and Cruella De Vil, among others. In addition, he played an active role in the planning of Disneyland park and all four of Disney's New York World's Fair attractions, including Pirates of the Caribbean, the Haunted Mansion, it's a small world, and later consulted on attractions for EPCOT Center and Toyko Disneyland after his retirement in 1978. In 1989, Marc was honored with the Disney Legends award.
ed note: Marc died in January 2000 at the age of 86. He is survived by his wife, Alice Davis, who herself was named a Disney Legend in 2004. On the occasions we met Marc, he was never less than gracious and was more than willing to discuss his work.
Images © Disney
About Jacqueline Perreault Gonzalez
One of the talented artists who bring shape, form and emotion to the award-winning gallery quality Walt Disney Classics Collection of fine animation art porcelain sculptures, Jacqueline Perreault Gonzales has been a professional artist for over 25 years. Jacqueline dreamed of being a sculptor for as long as she can remember. Raised in Rochester, New York, one of seven children, Jacqueline spent her youngest years drawing and carving things out of whatever materials she could find. "One of my first sculptures was a little fish hacked out of a small chunk of leftover wood," she recalls. "Crude as it was, I fell in love with the process of 'making shapes.'" At age 10, she made a tiny Western-style saloon out of bars of soap and named it the Ivory Bar. She included all the details--even the swinging slatted doors on little hinges. The details of a sculpted figure or scene remain critically important to Jacqueline today.
"I love the variety and challenges that the field of sculpture has to offer," Jacqueline says, married with a young son. "I get to work in different media and styles and in scales that range from larger-than-life to the size of a rice grain. Each project requires unique solutions and I think I learn something new every time. Disney characters--whether the sweetest cherub or the vilest villain--are especially intriguing to work with because every aspect of their form helps describe their persona and yet each film has such a characteristic style. I try to give new freshness to familiar characters, and love to explore the sculptural possibilities of those that are more obscure or of film moments that rarely get portrayed."
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Kane Hodder as Jason in "Jason X." Photo © New Line Cinema.
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