Reclining Nude
gemengde techniek
op papier
15 x 20 cm
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Walasse Ting
Biografie
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 and became acquainted
with the artists Karel Appel, Asger Jorn and Pierre Alechinsky, members of the CoBrA-group.
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 flat areas of colour with vivid acrylic
paint.
Tings fortunes changed when he moved to New York in 1960, where he became involved with pop artists and was
influenced by Abstract Expressionism. Concentrating briefly with abstract techniques, he soon adopted a
representational manner which he is continually expanding. Now, the colorful and flamboyant works of the painter
Walasse Ting are among the most admired examples of popular figuratism.
Ting’s works are a unique blend of bright fluorescent colors infused by an appreciation for the sensory pleasure of
the natural world. Besides painting, Ting has worked on numerous other projects, among them creative direction for
theatre, teaching and lecturing. He has also authored a number of books of poetry, the foremost being ‘Red Mouth’,
containing reproductions of 428 paintings and 33 black and white drawings.
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Walasse Ting was presented the Guggenheim Fellowship Award for Drawing in 1970. Public collections which own
his work include the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam, the Silkeborg Museum in Denmark, the Museum of Hong
Kong, the Chicago Art Institute and the Musee Cernuschi in Paris.
Ting has had more than sixty solo exhibitions in major art galleries and museums around the world. After more than
twenty years in New York, he moved to Amsterdam. After suffering a severe brain haemorrhage in 2002, he wasn’t
no longer able to continue his artistic carreer. He died shortly after his children moved him back to New York in
May 2010.
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