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Inuit Peoples
Inuit peoples are from Arctic areas of North AmericaInuit means “the people” in Inuktitut, the Inuit language.Slide2
Inuit Art
Inuit art is primarily an art of observation; with animals, hunting scenes, and people being the most recurring themes.
Kenojuak
Ashevak
, The Enchanted Owl,
1960, Stone cutSlide3
Kenojuak
AshevakInuit Artist
Kenojuak
Ashevak
was born October 3, 1927 Kenojuak spent her childhood on Baffin Island, living in igloos and skin tents
Kenojuak
created art until she died on January 8, 2013Slide4
In the 1950’s, the government began to encourage native people to make and sell their native arts and crafts to earn extra money
Kenojuak was hospitalized for 3 years with tuberculosis from 1952-55. In the hospital, she learned different arts and crafts, including beading
Kenojuak
was then taught the art of
printmaking
, and helped create an active artist community in Cape Dorset in 1959BackgroundSlide5
Inuit prints
Inuit prints are produced in a variety of media with the most common being either lithographs or stonecuts. Stonecuts
are quite unique to the Inuit in that the standard lithographic stone is carved out into a bas relief image of the design to be printed. Often the
stonecuts
are augmented with stencils to apply subtle colours to the prints. Slide6
Inuit beliefs and values
The force that animates all life forms is unseen but knowable. This form is in the spiritual realm.
Dog Sees the
Spirits
,
©
Kenojuak
Ashevak
,
1960, Stencil
on
paper, 48.7
x 60.9
cm, Collection
of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-Operative Ltd., on loan to the McMichael Canadian Art CollectionSlide7
Inuit beliefs and values
All life is sacred and all life forms are interconnected; the survival of each life form is dependent on
the survival
of all others
.
Custodians of Ancestral
Lore
,
©
Kenojuak
Ashevak
, 1992,
Stonecut
and stencil on
paper, 61.9
x 76.3
cm, Collection
of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-Operative Ltd., on loan to the McMichael Canadian Art CollectionSlide8
Inuit beliefs and values
Humans are equal to all others in the circle of life. Everything that exists in the circle is one unity, one heart.
Evitaruit
(Large Red Fish
), ©
Kenojuak Ashevak, 1975, Stonecut
and stencil on
paper, 60.6
x 81.2 cm, Collection of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-Operative Ltd., on loan to the McMichael Canadian Art CollectionSlide9
Inuit beliefs and values
Connections to the land and community are highly valued.
Katajatuit
(Throat Singers Gathering
), ©
Kenojuak Ashevak, 1991, Lithograph on paper, 56.1 x 76.0
cm, Collection
of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-Operative Ltd., on loan to the McMichael Canadian Art CollectionSlide10
Inuit beliefs and values
A sacred relationship with nature
Illustrious
Owl
,
©
Kenojuak
Ashevak
,
1999, Lithograph
on
paper, 57
x 76.5
cm. Collection
of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-Operative Ltd.Slide11
Myself and
I, © Kenojuak Ashevak, 1981, handcoloured
etching on
paper, 72.4
x 85.0
cm, Collection of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-Operative Ltd., on loan to the McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Transformation scenes
Transformations are strong meaningful topics in reference to Inuit cosmology and shamanism. According to Inuit people, the universe (
silajjuaq
) is organized around three worlds: one where live human beings (humans, animals, vegetables); another one inhabited by dead animals or humans; and, a last one occupied by spirits (
tuurnngait
). Slide12
According to
Kenojuak, her father believed he could predict weather, predict good hunting seasons and even turn into a walrus; he also had the ability "to make fish swarm at the surface so it was easier to fish.
Drawing for print Walrus
Spirit
,
©
Kenojuak
Ashevak
, 1965-66, Graphite
and felt-tip pen on
paper, 35.4
x 43.0
cm, Collection
of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-Operative Ltd., on loan to the McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Transformation scenesSlide13
“The making of prints, what you call art, is simply to transfer the real to the unreal
.”– Kenojuak Ashevak
Guardian
Owl
,
©
Kenojuak
Ashevak
,
1997,
E
tching
and aquatint on
paper, 80.0
x 98.0
cm, Collection
of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-Operative Ltd., on loan to the McMichael Canadian Art CollectionSlide14
“I have a style of drawing that doesn’t belong to anybody but me. It is my own... people can try to copy it but they can’t…
It would be hard for me to express how little I desire to imitate anybody else’s work. I have no desire on earth to do that. At the same time I don’t really want my style, what I feel belongs to me, to be imitated by anyone else. I feel that’s fair.”
–
Kenojuak
AshevakThe ChallengeSlide15
The process
1) Find Arctic images
that
inspire you from the Internet, books in the library or your imagination. Slide16
2.
Sketch images into your sketchbook (at least 3 images are required)
3. Fine-tune your
image so that it is a simple line design that contours your imagesSlide17
4. Transfer and then carve your image into a lino-blockSlide18
5. Print your image.Slide19
Resources
http://www.canadianart.ca/news/2013/01/08/kenojuak-ashevak/(http://www.elcalondon.com/about_inuit_art.asp
)
http://inuitartalive.ca/index_e.php?p=133
http://www.nfb.ca/film/eskimo-artist-kenojuakhttp://www.inuitartzone.com/inuit_art_transformations_s/50.htmhttp://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenojuak_Ashevak
Sources for drawinghttp
://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/unusual-number-of-arctic-snowy-owls-spotted-in-u-s
/
http
://
www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/13-animals-of-the-arctic/polar-bear
Print Images from:
http
://
ccca.concordia.ca/artists/work_detail.html?languagePref=en&mkey=27400&title=The+Enchanted+Owl&artist=Kenojuak+Ashevak&link_id=2010
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Artist:
Kenojuak Ashevak, Title: Guardian Owl (1980), LithographSlide21
The Enchanted
Owl, © Kenojuak Ashevak,1960,
Stonecut
on
paper, 61.0 x 66.0 cm, Collection of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-Operative Ltd., on loan to the McMichael Canadian Art Collection