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The uniqueness of inuit art

Article Category: Advice

Author Name: John duVal

The uniqueness of Inuit art showcases to the world that the Inuit are devoted to sharing the love of the culture and the land that provides their physical and spiritual necessities. Inuit art styles differ from community to community. The most sought after Inuit art is stone sculputure. Inuit works of art also include, lithographic prints, and dolls, tapestries, embroidery and beading, drawings and paintings. As from different types of stone works of art are created from antlers, also bone, and ivory. Throughout the past fifty-years printmaking has spread from Cape Dorset to other Baffin Island communities such as Holeman. Beadwork is popular and takes many hours to create a finished piece. Dolls are made from pieces of fur. The most sought after Inuit art other than stone sculpture, is stone-cut limited edition prints (50 copies per image, then the stone is destroyed), dolls, tapestries, embroidery and beading, drawings and paintings. In the early nineteen fifties, James Houston, author, travelled to Baffin Island to acquire works of Inuit soapstone carvings. While in Cape Dorset, he taught stone cut lithography to the natives. The images include animals, family, and mythological depictions. Co-operatives were organized in the other Arctic communities, helping the Inuit art market grow, internationally. Since the 1950s, when Inuit sculptural styles evolved, Inuit carvers in Cape Dorset adopted a more polished style than Artists in the more distant communities. Other sculptors, such as George Arlook, have developed a style that is highly abstract. All styles reflect the flora and fauna, games, traditional activities, and sea creatures essential to Inuit life and survival.
Even today, the Inuit, especially the older carvers, create their works using hand tools such as rasps and axes. Modern power tools are used, but most sculptors prefer the old ways, giving them more physical and spiritual connection with the stone they consider to be living. The most common material is now steatite, serpentine, or soapstone found within seventy kilometers of Cape Dorset, ranging in color from black to dark brown to dark green, resembling jade, to light mottled green in color, or orange-red pipestone. The finishing touch of a stone sculpture is polishing, which is done with varying grades of sandpaper, under water.
The grounding quality of Inuit art showcases to the world that Inuit are devoted to sharing their love of thier culture and the land that has provided for their physical and spiritual needs. The most sought after Inuit art is sculputure, but Inuit art offers other forms including dolls, tapestries, embroidery, drawings and painting and. By the nineteen sixties, co-operatives were functioning in most Inuit communities, expanding world-wide interest in Inuit art.

Keywords: inuit art, aboriginal art baffin island art

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