Do You Like Cool Breeze? 1983

Walasse Ting made "Do You Like Cool Breeze?" using a whole lotta bright acrylic paint, and some confident brushstrokes. It's like he’s thinking about art-making as a really fun process, where the goal is to splash paint around and create a world. I like to look closely at the way he handles color. The pink of the figure is full of splatters and tiny drips, with flecks of contrasting color peeking through. It makes the pink feel alive and not so flat. The surface feels like a party, all these playful marks accumulating into an image. I wonder what kind of brush he used? Ting had a long career, and this work is very characteristic of the style he developed later in life. But I can also see a connection to early modernist painters like Matisse, who also loved to use bright color to create joyful, decorative scenes. It's like he's winking at the art historical canon, but also doing his own thing, and that's the most exciting kind of art for me.