ocr: ARTS years he helped shape the minds of young artists thirsting for SO- cial revelations found only in Western art. Itv was in Kun- ming that Ting founded what is known today as the Yunnan School, an artistic movement that has captured the Imagination-and the pocketbooks- - -of art collectors in the United States, Europe and Japan. VERSACE minority Ting first Dai women discovered in the Yunnan. The sensuous beautifully figures out- of lined bodies of the girls in tightly fitting skirts, the graceful trees of the tropical for- ests and confi- gurations of Dai bamboo houses gave him much inspira ...