Walasse Ting
Walasse Ting
American, born China, 1929–2010
Birth placeShanghai, China
Death placeNew York City, New York, United States
SchoolChinese
BiographyBorn in Shanghai, China, Walesse Ting is a self-taught painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet who left China in 1949 and became a United States citizen in 1974. He traveled and settled for a period in Paris beginning 1953, and became acquainted with artists Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, and Pierre Alechinsky, members of the avant-garde group called COBRA.From 1963, he has lived in New York City and works in a variety of styles ranging from pure non-objectivity to figurative works showing both people and animals.
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