Walasse Ting (, 13 October 1929 – May 17, 2010) was a Chinese-American
visual artist and poet. His colorful paintings have attracted critical admiration and a popular following. Common subjects include
nude
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women and cats, birds and other animals.
He was born on 13 October 1929 in
Shanghai
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, left China in 1946 and lived for a while in Hong Kong, then settled in Paris in 1952.
There, he associated with artists such as
Karel Appel
Christiaan Karel Appel (; 25 April 1921 – 3 May 2006) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-gard ...
,
Asger Jorn, and
Pierre Alechinsky
Pierre Alechinsky (born 19 October 1927) is a Belgian artist. He has lived and worked in France since 1951. His work is related to tachisme, abstract expressionism, and lyrical abstraction.
Life
Alechinsky was born in Schaerbeek. In 1944 he att ...
, members of the
avant-garde
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group
CoBrA.
![Opening Galerie Espace Keizersgracht Amsterdam, 1960 - 02](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Opening_Galerie_Espace_Keizersgracht_Amsterdam%2C_1960_-_02.jpg)
In 1957, he moved to the United States, and settled in
New York
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where his work was influenced by
pop art and
abstract expressionism
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. He began primarily as an abstract artist, but the bulk of his work since the mid-1970s has been described as popular
figuratism, with broad areas of color painted with a Chinese brush and
acrylic paint
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.
He lived in Amsterdam in the 1990s, but regularly moved between there and New York.
He is the author of 13 books, including "All in my Head" (Walasse Ting & Roland Topor, 1974) and "One Cent Life" (
Eberhard W. Kornfeld, 1964) a portfolio of 62 original lithographs by 28 artists, including
Andy Warhol
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,
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Fox Lichtenstein (; October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. Hi ...
,
Kiki Kogelnik
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,
Tom Wesselmann
Thomas K. Wesselmann (February 23, 1931 – December 17, 2004) was an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture.
Early years
Wesselmann was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati.
From 1949 ...
,
James Rosenquist,
Asger Jorn,
Pierre Alechinsky
Pierre Alechinsky (born 19 October 1927) is a Belgian artist. He has lived and worked in France since 1951. His work is related to tachisme, abstract expressionism, and lyrical abstraction.
Life
Alechinsky was born in Schaerbeek. In 1944 he att ...
,
Karel Appel
Christiaan Karel Appel (; 25 April 1921 – 3 May 2006) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-gard ...
,
Claes Oldenburg,
Joan Mitchell,
Robert Rauschenberg
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and
Sam Francis.
He won the
Guggenheim Fellowship
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Award (for Drawing) in 1970.
His works are found in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the
Guggenheim Museum, New York;
Museum of Modern Art
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, New York;
Art Institute of Chicago
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;
Tate Modern
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, London;
Centre Pompidou, Paris and the
Hong Kong Museum of Art, among others.
He was sometimes referred to by his Chinese name "丁雄泉" or its various romanizations: Ding Xiongquan or Ting Hsiung-ch'uan.
Ting died on May 17, 2010 at aged 80 in
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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Film and television
* '' ...
, US.
References
External links
Large collection of original Walasse Ting paintings at Gallery DelaiveOriginal paintings by Walasse Ting for saleWebsite about Walasse Ting in Chinese - Xiongquan Ding - 丁雄泉Biography at artrepublic.com Gives slightly different timeline.
Biography and gallery at delaive.com
Walasse Ting in Auction
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1929 births
2010 deaths
Artists from Shanghai
American contemporary painters
20th-century American painters
American male painters
Abstract painters
20th-century American male artists