Walasse Ting first came to prominence in the 1950s, shortly after arriving in Paris. Ting's works were shown in joint exhibitions with members of the CoBrA avant-garde art group, such as Pierre Alechinsky and Asger Jorn, and he became an active member of the European art scene. In 1958, Ting relocated to New York, urban landscape enriched the colors of his works, and the freewheeling, liberal atmosphere was an important source of creative inspiration for him. The women, flowers, birds, animals, etc. that he saw all around him were transformed into elements in his creative art.

Ting’s most prominent feature is the use of bright, vivid, fresh color to depict nature’s beautiful animals, flowers, and women. His alluring, glamorous world draws in the audience to share his passion for nature while offering a feast for the senses.

In the eye of the visual artist and poet, Ting knew that this fascinating world is not all about frivolous vanity. With perceptive insight and understanding, using many flamboyant colors has never disturbed his peace of mind and tempo to appreciate the world. Loving flowers, adoring flowers, drawing flowers; loving women, adoring women, drawing women; loving mountains, adoring mountains, drawing mountains—he found such pleasures equally joyful.

Ting painted this piece in 1989. The weeping willows studded with pink petals that sift through the color of the sky spread over the whole panel like a pearl curtain wavering in the wind. The past bold and unstrained enthusiasm turns into a meek and demure manner today. The lines and colors sink into the paper depicting the pink flowers in blossom just as the trials and transformations in life. Spring—again, it is spring. Ting’s world left no cycle of seasons, only an exuberant image of spring.