Walasse Ting 丁雄泉 (1929-2010) Naive Art Pop Art COBRA American, Chinese

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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 in 1929. He 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" (E.W Kornfeld, 1964) a portfolio of 62 original lithographs by 28 artists, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, James Rosenquist, Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Kiki Kogelnik, Joan Mitchell 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.
丁雄泉（中國：丁雄泉，1929年10月13日 - 2010年5月17日）是中國的美國視覺藝術家和詩人。他的彩繪吸引了至關重要的欽佩和流行以下。公共科目包括裸體女人和貓，鳥和其他動物。
他出生於上海1929年他離開中國於1946年，住了一段時間在香港，然後在巴黎於1952年入駐有與藝術家，如卡雷爾·阿佩爾，導演Asger喬恩，和Pierre ALECHINSKY，成員有關，他前衛組，眼鏡蛇。
1957年，他移居美國，並在紐約，他的工作是波普藝術和抽象表現主義解決。他主要是一開始是一個抽象藝術家，但他的工作自20世紀70年代中期的大部分已被描述為流行figuratism，顏色塗上了中國毛筆和丙烯酸塗料的廣泛領域。
他住在阿姆斯特丹的20世紀90年代，但和紐約之間定期移動。
他是13本書，包括“在我的腦子”（丁雄泉與羅蘭·托普，1974年）和“一分生活”（EW Komfeld也1964年）的62原石版畫28藝術家，包括安迪·沃霍爾的投資組合的作者，李奇登斯坦，湯姆韋塞爾曼，詹姆斯·羅森奎斯特，導演Asger喬恩，皮埃爾ALECHINSKY，卡雷爾·阿佩爾，奇奇科蓋爾尼克，瓊·米切爾和薩姆·弗朗西斯。
他於1970年榮獲古根海姆獎學金獎（為圖）他的作品在全球許多博物館，包括古根海姆博物館，紐約的永久收藏品中;現代藝術，紐約博物館;芝加哥藝術學院;泰特現代美術館，倫敦;蓬皮杜藝術中心，巴黎和藝術的香港館，等等。他有時也被他的中國名字“丁雄泉”或它的各種羅馬拼音簡稱：丁雄泉或挺雄，全書。
丁雄泉自幼在街頭習畫，以素人畫家自居。曾進入上海美術專科學校。1946年，跟隨全家移居香港。1952年，至巴黎，正式投入藝術生涯，結識眼鏡蛇畫派（CoBrA）。1958年，移居紐約，在國際畫壇上開始有了名聲。丁雄泉喜歡以女人、花草、鸚鵡和馬為主題，色彩絢麗，經常以「採花大盜」落款。在2002年中風之後，已經無法作畫。