Background
Walasse Ting was born on October 13, 1929 in Shanghai, China. He was a son of Ho Chang Ting and Ping (Sen) Ting.
Walasse came to the United States in 1957. Later, in 1974, he became an American citizen.
Walasse Ting in his New York City studio.
Walasse Ting
Walasse Ting
Walasse Ting
Walasse Ting in his New York City studio.
Walasse Ting
Walasse Ting
Walasse Ting
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Walasse Ting was born on October 13, 1929 in Shanghai, China. He was a son of Ho Chang Ting and Ping (Sen) Ting.
Walasse came to the United States in 1957. Later, in 1974, he became an American citizen.
In 1940, Ting briefly studied at the Shanghai Art Academy, but always considered himself to be self-taught, learning to draw with chalk on the street at a young age.
In 1952, Walasse left for Paris, where he became associated with the avant-garde group COBRA. Some time later, in 1957, during the height of the Abstract Expressionist and Pop Art movements, the artist settled down in New York. There, Ting began his career as an abstract artist, but in the mid-1970's, he turned to Figurativism. In the 1970's, Ting also developed his distinctive style, using Chinese calligraphic brushstrokes to define outlines and filling flat areas of colour with vivid acrylic paint.
Ting held 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, where he had a spacious studio. Besides painting, the artist worked on numerous other projects, among them creative direction for theatre, teaching and lecturing.
After suffering a severe brain haemorrhage in 2002, Ting was no longer able to continue his artistic carreer. He spent the remainder of his life, looked after in a medical institute in Amstelveen, the Netherlands.
Walasse Ting gained prominence for his fluorescent colored paintings of cats, erotic nudes and flowers. Also, the artist received Guggenheim Fellowship Award for Drawing in 1970.
His works are kept in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena and other museums and galleries.
Quotations: "Paintings are my honey, colors are my flowers, velocity is what’s required of a thief—he must paint as speedily as he draws a gun."
Walasse was a member of COBRA (avant-garde movement).
Walasse Ting married Natalie R. Lipton on June 4, 1962. Their marriage produced two children.
