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Walasse Ting 丁雄泉
Abstract 抽象
1959–1960
Walasse Ting was known for vibrant, colourful oil compositions. He embraced multiple post-war movements, engaging with Fauvism in Shanghai, joining CoBrA painters in Paris, and finding success as an émigré artist in New York at the height of abstract expressionism. During the late 1950s in New York, Ting experimented with gestural expressive movements, as evidenced in Abstraction.
The artist painted the large work on the floor, making strong and energetic movements with his entire body and introducing the element of action. The controlled outbursts resulted in a dynamic composition that resembles a firework. Ting was a self-taught artist, and his explosive movements evident in the composition are intuitive and remarkably well orchestrated. He signed and dated the work in red pencil in the top right corner, also making illegible marks in the bottom left. The primitivism advocated by CoBrA artists is applied here. Abstraction is also an homage to the tradition of kuang cao (wild cursive script) that nevertheless maintains a playful attitude.
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