Walasse Ting

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Born in Wuxi, China in 1929, but raised in Shanghai, Walesse Ting is a self-taught painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet who began his life as an artist at a very young age, painting on sidewalks. He left China in 1949 and settled for a six year period in Paris beginning in 1952, where he lived as a poor struggling artist but became acquainted with artists Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, and Pierre Alechinsky, members of the avant-garde group called COBRA. Ting arrived in New York in 1958 at the height of the Abstract Expressionist period. He befriended the American artist, Sam Francis, and the movement had a profound influence on his work. Unlike in Paris, Ting could paint and sell his work. Bold dripping strokes featured in his paintings, which at that time were mainly poetic abstractions in the manner of the Paris-based Chinese artist, Zao Wouki. Only in the 1970s did Ting develop his now distinctive style using Chinese calligraphic brushstrokes to define outlines and filling f

Drawings |  Inks |  Paintings |  Prints |  ALL 1 | 2    NEXT>  (click on thumbnail below for larger image) Lady With Vase Black Cat Busy Bodies lucky grasshoppers Iris Flowers Bouquet of flowers Two Lovebirds Three Parrots With Feathers Three Parrots Good Morning 2 Good Morning 1 Good Morning 3 Good Morning 5 Good Morning 6 Good Morning 4 Four Fish with Scales Portrait 1 Portrait three Portrait two Red Horse Blue Horse Green Horse Woman in blue hat with pink flower Neon Fruit Yellow Woman with Pink Flower Green Cat Pink & Yellow Twins Three Beauties Vase with Portrait, Fruit and Fish Untitled 1 Grape Flavor Hidden Smiles Woman with Vase of Flowers Midnite Cat Cat in the Garden Bird Talk Geshia Good Morning 10 Good Morning 11 Good Morning 12 Good Morning 13 Good Morning 14 Good Morning 15 Good Morning 16 Good Morning 17 Good Morning 18 Good Morning 19 Good Morning 20 Good Morning 21 Good Morning 22 1 | 2    NEXT>