Ian Falconer

Ian Woodward Falconer (25 ga Agusta, 1959 - 7 ga Maris, 2023)  marubuci ne ɗan ƙasar Amurka, mai zane-zane, mai tsara saitin littattafai, kuma mai tsara kayan ado . Falconer ya kasance abin tarihi ga mai zane-zanen pop David Hockney, wanda ya yi aiki tare da shi wajen tsara kayan ado don shirye-shiryen wasan kwaikwayo. Falconer ya ƙirƙiri murfin mujallu da yawa don The New Yorker da sauran wallafe-wallafe. A shekara ta 2001, ya sami lambar yabo ta Caldecott Honor saboda rubutawa da kuma kwatanta jerin littattafan yara na Olivia . 

 Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
An haifi Ian Woodward Falconer a ranar 25 ga Agusta, 1959, a Ridgefield, Connecticut, ga iyayensa Alexandra da Bruce Falconer. [1] Mahaifiyarsa ta mallaki shagon abinci mai kyau tare, ta koyar da zane-zane, kuma tana gudanar da makarantar koyon tuƙa jiragen ruwa, yayin da mahaifinsa ke aiki a matsayin mai zane.

Falconer ya kammala karatunsa daga Makarantar Cambridge ta Weston kuma ya yi karatun tarihin fasaha a Jami'ar New York kafin ya koma Makarantar Zane ta Parsons . 

Lokacin da Falconer yake da shekaru 19, ya haɗu da mai zane David Hockney a gidan mai kula da Henry Geldzahler na New York.  Bayan sun ƙulla dangantaka, Falconer ya koma Cibiyar Fasaha ta Otis lokacin da Hockney ya koma Los Angeles.  Duk da haka, Falconer ya bar kwaleji saboda yana jin cewa kawai ya koya masa "sana'o'in gida," yana mai cewa "ba ya buƙatar wani malami sai David Hockney." 

 Sana'a 

 Zane-zanen gidan wasan kwaikwayo 
Falconer ya kasance mai himma a duniyar zane-zanen wasan kwaikwayo. A shekarar 1987, ya taimaka wa Hockney wajen tsara kayan ado na fim ɗin Tristan und Isolde na Richard Wagner na Los Angeles Opera ; a shekarar 1992 ya taimaka wa Hockney wajen shirya fim ɗin Turandot na Puccini na Chicago Lyric Opera .  A shekarar 1992, Falconer ya tsara kayan ado na fim ɗin, Hockney kuma ya tsara kayan don fim ɗin Richard Strauss na The Royal Opera ' Die Frau ohne Schatten a Covent Garden . 

A shekarar 1996, Falconer ya tsara saitin fim ɗin The Atlantic Theater na The Santaland Diaries, wanda David Sedaris ya rubuta. Ben Brantley, mai sukar wasan kwaikwayo na The New York Times, ya rubuta "Zane-zanen zane mai ban dariya da Ian Falconer ya shirya ya yi kyau sosai a cikin launin toka mai kama da na yau da kullun." 

A shekarar 1999, Falconer ya tsara shimfidar wurare da kayan ado don shirya fim ɗin Igor Stravinsky mai suna The Firebird, wanda Christopher Wheeldon ya shirya. A wannan shekarar, ya tsara saitin fim ɗin don Scenes de Ballet . A shekara ta 2001 ya tsara saitin fim ɗin da kayan ado na Felix Mendelssohn 's Variations sérieuses . Wheeldon ya yi wasan kwaikwayo na biyu na New York City Ballet .  A shekara ta 2002, Falconer ya tsara saitin fim ɗin da kayan ado na Jeu de Cartes na Stravinsky, wanda Peter Martins ya shirya don New York City Ballet.

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 2023
Rukuni:Haihuwan 1959