Draft:Fanfan Li

Fanfan Li (chinois simplifié: 李芳芳; pinyin: Lǐ fāng fāng), born in Shenyang, China, is a contemporary painter.

Biography
Fanfan Li was born in Shenyang, the central city of northeastern China. Her parents are writers, poets, and journalists.

In her yang age, she studied Chinese paintings and Western paintings.

In 1986, she moved to New York and studied jewelry design at Fashion Institute of Technology.

In 1989, she won the first prize award of Van Cleef & Arpels for Best Young Designer, by the Comité Colbert.

Fanfan Li started a career as a jewelry designer at Van Cleef & Arpels New York, then Bulgari New York and Cartier Paris.

At New York, she continued to evolve in her painting with master Wang Fang Yu, a professor at Yale University, and C.C. Wang, a painter and well-known art collector.

Since 2002, in Paris, she devote herself mainly to developing her passion for painting.

Fanfan Li's style rises above a combination of elements she has absorbed from Chinese as well as Western art, especially those from America and France. The traits of Symbolism, Néoplasticisme, and Bauhaus are creatively interwoven with nicety. Her works show her deep thoughts about how time, nature, and human destiny are related with each other.

The artist produced different forms of art. Her works were shown at many art events and exhibitions.

Selection of collections

 * Château de Villandry, pays de Loire, France
 * Cercle de l'Union Interalliée, Paris, France