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Lifang Yao was born in 1978. She got her MA degree in 2003, and has been teaching in the College of Fine Arts at Fujian Normal University since. She visited Northern Arizona University of USA as a visiting scholar in 2006. She is a member of the Fujian Artists Association as well.
Her work ¡°The Wild Gooses¡± gained the silver award at the tenth National Art Exhibition of China in 2004, and was collected by the National Art Museum of China. ¡°Playing Shuttlecock¡± was shown at the Sixth National Physical Culture Exhibition in 2005, and was collected by the National Physical Culture Museum. In 2006, Seventeen paintings were shown in a three-artist group exhibition with the title ¡°Special Art of the Orient¡± in Arizona, USA. ¡°Maidens in Breeze¡± was shown in ¡°HER PRESENCE IN COLOURS ---International Woman Artists Exhibitions Series¡± in April 2008. And she was awarded the first prize of ¡°The Fifth Hundred-Flower Awards on Literature and Art¡± by Fujian provincal government in May 2008.
Lifang draws both still life and figures with her unique style, and is interested in abstract structure and subjective colors, as well as the ancient history and traditional culture of her country, which are shown in most of her works. Her work combines western modern art with traditional oriental art, because she loves not only Chinese traditional art, but western modern art as well. She pays special attention to aesthetics, and you can find that her works always show the spirit of aestheticism.
