1. Walasse Ting was a Chinese-American visual artist and poet.
11 Facts About Walasse Ting
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Walasse Ting was born on 13 October 1928 in Shanghai, left China in 1946 and lived for a while in Hong Kong, then settled in Paris in 1952.
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Walasse Ting was known for his collaborations with poets, including Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, and his own poetry, which often featured themes of love and desire.
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Walasse Ting 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.
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Walasse Ting lived in Amsterdam in the 1990s, but regularly moved between there and New York.
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Walasse Ting is the author of 13 books, including "All in my Head" and "One Cent Life" 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.
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Walasse Ting won the Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 1970.
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Walasse Ting's 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; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC;Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Hong Kong Museum of Art, among others.
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Walasse Ting moved to Hong Kong in 1946 and went to France in 1952.
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Walasse Ting was unable to create after a stroke in 2002.
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Walasse Ting died on May 17,2010, at age 81 in New York, US.