{"product_id":"walasse-ting","title":"Fish - Walasse Ting","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePainter Walasse Ting is 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe lived in Amsterdam in the 1990s, but regularly moved between there and New York. He is the author of 13 books, including \u003cem\u003eAll in my Head \u003c\/em\u003e(Walasse Ting \u0026amp; Roland Topor, 1974) and \u003cem\u003eOne Cent Life\u003c\/em\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"White Cross Art","offers":[{"title":"42\" x 55\"","offer_id":44423719649506,"sku":null,"price":1600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3099\/8498\/products\/WalasseTingFish_specialsize.png?v=1697663283","url":"https:\/\/discoveryphotoco.com\/products\/walasse-ting","provider":"Discovery Land Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}