Walasse Ting
- Introduction
- Walasse Ting (Chinese: 丁雄泉, October 13, 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 women and cats, birds and other animals. He was born in Shanghai, 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, he 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. 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, Roy Lichtenstein, Kiki Kogelnik, Tom Wesselmann, James Rosenquist, Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Claes Oldenburg, Joan Mitchell Robert Rauschenberg and Sam Francis. He won the Guggenheim Fellowship 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, 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.
- Wikidata
- Q2095915
- Nationalities
- American, Chinese
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Poet, Graphic Artist, Painter, Sculptor
- Names
- Walasse Ting, Wallace Ting, Xiongquan Ding, Wallase Ting, 丁雄泉, Hsiung-ch'uan Ting
- Ulan
- 500019971
Exhibitions
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Pop Impressions Europe/USA: Prints and Multiples from The Museum of Modern Art
Feb 18–May 18, 1999
MoMA
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Dubuffet to de Kooning: Expressionist Prints from Europe and America
Oct 29, 1998–Feb 2, 1999
MoMA
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A Century of Artists Books
Oct 23, 1994–Jan 24, 1995
MoMA
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Still Life Into Object
Nov 22, 1990–Mar 19, 1991
MoMA
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Abstractions
Nov 17, 1988–Mar 26, 1989
MoMA
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Walasse Ting has
8 exhibitionsonline.
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Walasse Ting Two Insects (1963)
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Pierre Alechinsky, Walasse Ting "Aleching" 1963
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Various Artists, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Enrico Baj, Alan Davie, Jim Dine, Öyvind Fahlström, Sam Francis, Robert Indiana, Alfred Jensen, Asger Jorn, Allan Kaprow, Kiki (Kiki O. K.) Kogelnik, Alfred Leslie, Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell, Claes Oldenburg, Mel Ramos, Robert Rauschenberg, Jean-Paul Riopelle, James Rosenquist, Antonio Saura, Kimber Smith, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Walasse Ting, Bram van Velde, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann 1¢ Life 1963–64, published 1964
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Walasse Ting Plate (page 17) from 1¢ Life 1964
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Walasse Ting Double page in-text plate (pages 48 and 49) from 1¢ Life 1963, published 1964
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Walasse Ting Plate (page 91) from 1¢ Life 1964
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Walasse Ting Plate (page 94) from 1¢ Life 1964
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Walasse Ting Double page in-text plate (pages 106 and 107) from 1¢ Life 1964
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Walasse Ting Double page in-text plate (pages 124 and 125) from 1¢ Life 1964
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Walasse Ting Hot and Sour Soup (1969)
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Walasse Ting Untitled from Homage to Picasso (Hommage à Picasso) 1972, published 1973
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