Yang Yang, a painter who keeps the faith
- By Wu Jin
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In spite of her numerous failures on her road to becoming a professional painter, Yang Yang, the 42-year-old female artist, never loses her faith in painting.
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| A painting of Yang Yang. [China.org.cn] |
Like father, like daughter. Yang chose painting as her lifelong career because of her father, a veteran alumnus of the privileged China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), who taught her the basic sketching skills when she was only a child.
The light, shades, lines left Yang with a very deep impression that she could hardly give up when she reached the age to attend university.
"That childhood influence made me keen to attend CAFA, but at that time I was not quite sure about and of myself," Yang said.
Therefore, in 1991, Yang opted for an alternative -- the Minzu University of China -- where she majored in Chinese painting. Upon her graduation in 1995, she became the art editor for a magazine published by the Ministry of Public Security. In the following years, Yang led the typical life of most Chinese women, commuting between work and family, getting married and giving birth. Her story would have ended rather safely and peacefully this way, had she not been haunted by her artistic impulse.
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Although she painted in her spare time, being an amateur painter was hardly satisfactory. She consequently attended the Postgraduate Entrance Exam in 2004, but failed. Nine years away from books and classes, Yang's rusted language skills incapacitated her, costing her a pass in English. By then, she was 32, an age when very few women in China would choose to apply for a master's degree.
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