Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Walasse Ting was a Chinese-American visual artist and poet. His colorful paintings have attracted critical admiration and a popular following. Common subjects include nude women and cats, birds and other animals.
Ting was born in Shanghai in 1929. He 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, Asger Jorn, and Pierre Alechinsky, members of the avant-garde group, CoBrA.
In 1957, Ting moved to the United States, and settled in New York, where his work was influenced by Pop art and Abstract Expressionism. 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. He lived in Amsterdam in the 1990s, but regularly moved between there and New York.
Ting is the author of 13 books, including All in My Head (Walasse Ting & Roland Topor, 1974) and One Cent Life (E.W Kornfeld, 1964), a portfolio of 62 original lithographs by 28 artists, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, James Rosenquist, Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Kiki Kogelnik, Joan Mitchell and Sam Francis.
Ting won the Guggenheim Fellowship Award for drawing in 1970. His works can be found in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Tate Modern, 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.
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1980s Post-War Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Rice Paper
1980s Modern Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
1980s Abstract Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Offset
1980s Expressionist Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Acrylic, Rice Paper
1980s Abstract Expressionist Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
20th Century Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Ink, Handmade Paper
Late 20th Century Abstract Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Pen, Watercolor
Early 20th Century American Realist Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
2010s Contemporary Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Acrylic, Monoprint, Archival Tape
1970s Modern Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Archival Ink, Watercolor
2010s Expressionist Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Acrylic, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Acrylic, Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Early 20th Century Expressionist Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor, Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Charcoal
1950s American Modern Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor, Pen, India Ink
16th Century Mannerist Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Oil, Canvas, Handmade Paper
Early 20th Century Expressionist Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor, Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Charcoal, Gouache