Labels:text | newspaper | screenshot | publication OCR: ARTS ings sell for between US$75,000 and US$100,000. soft femininity, the masterful use of colour and The best example of the appreciating value of the exquisite line drawing create a perfect mar- Ting's work is Beautiful Sisusuanbana. In 1983 riage. Combine that with his native culture, and this painting sold for US$8,000 in the United one can easily see the basis of Ting's success." States. It recently fetched US$250,000 in Japan. Ting estimates that more than 1,000 art galleries "No matter what city, country or age group, eve- throughout the world sell his work. ryone is drawn to Ting's work," says Segal. "The Of 600 originals, only two remain in his pos- NO MATTER session. He has sold some WHAT CITY, 100,000 silk tapestries based on his originals. COUNTRY OR AGE Asked whether paintings that GROUP, EVERYONE sell extremely well are neces- IS DRAWN TO sarily of high artistic value, Ting TING'S WORK. says: "The commercial and the THE SOFT artistic should not be counter- FEMININITY, THE posed to each other." Two kinds of Chinese painters MASTERFUL USE are bound to fail in the United OF COLOUR AND States-those who stick to Chi- THE EXQUISITE nese tradition and those who LINE DRAWING blindly follow Western trends, Ting says. CREATE A Ting Shao Kuang's success is PERFECT the integration of East and MARRIAGE OFFERING OF LOVE West.
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