Walasse ting biography of nancy

Ting arrived in New York in at the height of the Abstract Expressionist period. In New York he sold his work, bold dripping strokes featured in his paintings. Only in the s did Ting developed is now distinctive style using calligraphic brushstrokes to define outlines and filling flat areas of colour with vivid paint. Like Gauguin, he often visited Tahiti in search of the exotic colours that he loved.

His most common subjects contain women, cats, birds and peacocks. He has written many books of poetry, the foremost being Red Mouth, containing reproductions of paintings and 33 black and white drawings.

Walassi Ting is a Chinese artist who was born in Wuxi, China in but in fact was raised in Shanghai.

After suffering a severe brain hemorrhage in he was no longer able to continue his artistic career. Ting died on May 17, , at the age of 80 in New York. Walasse Ting Ting was born in Wuxi, China, in , but was raised in Shangai. He is a self-taught painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet, who began his life as an artist at a very young age. He left China in and settled in Paris for 6 years.

Ting lived as a poor struggling artist but became acquainted with all the members of the avant-garde group called COBRA. Girl in Pink. Hidden by the Flowers.