Kenozhuak Ashevak ( Inuit. ᕿᓐᓄᐊᔪᐊᖅ ᐋᓯᕙᒃ; October 3, 1927, Ikirasak camp, Baffin Land , Northwest Territories (now Nunavut ), Canada - January 8, 2013, Kinghait camp, Cape Dorset , Baffin Land, Nunavut, Canada) - Canadian Eximos the artist , sculptor and artist, is considered one of the founders of contemporary Canadian Eskimo art.
| Kenozhuak Ashevak | |
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| ᕿᓐᓄᐊᔪᐊᖅ ᐋᓯᕙᒃ English Kenojuak ashevak | |
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| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Baffin Island , Northwest Territories , Canada |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Cape Dorset , Baffin Island , Nunavut , Canada |
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| Genre | painter |
| Awards | Canadian Walk of Fame ( 2001 ) [d] [d] [d] |
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Biography
She was born into an igloo on the south coast of Baffin Island , in an Eskimo camp, where her father, a walrus hunter, fisherman and fur trader, was a shaman [3] . He actively opposed the introduction of the Christian religion in his tribe and was killed for this in 1933, when Kenozhuak was 6 years old [4] [5] . After that, she and her mother moved to the Kovees camp, where she studied traditional Eskimo crafts, including the dressing of seal skins. At 19, she was forcibly married to a local hunter, but soon fell in love with him.
Kenozhuak began to draw (on seal skins) and make carved sculptures in her youth, and with the full support of her husband. In 1950, Canadian doctors who arrived at her camp discovered tuberculosis in her. In 1952, due to poor health, she was sent to a Quebec hospital, where she was treated until 1955. All three years of treatment, she continued to paint, and also mastered the creation of dolls and beadwork . Patron James Archibald Houston organized in 1958 the publication of her drawing “The Rabbit Eats Seaweed,” which was the first fact that the Eskimo drawing was published in the Canadian press. In 1959, Kenojuac recovered, with the support of Houston, founded the so-called senlavik in Baffin Island - an art workshop for local Eskimos, where they could learn and improve in traditional crafts [6] [7] .
By 1963, Kenojuac’s popularity in Canada had grown so much that a documentary was shot about her life. Kenozhuak's husband was able to buy a kayak for a fee and become an independent hunter. In 1981, a book of her drawings was published.
After the death of her husband in 1972, Kenozhuak married twice (as she survived her second husband) and gave birth to 11 children, 7 of whom died in infancy, and also raised 5 foster children. She died of lung cancer in her own wooden house in the Kingait camp, always leading a traditional Eskimo lifestyle.
Creativity
Her most famous work is The Enchanted Owl (1960), which was depicted on a Canadian postage stamp in 1970 and painted in stained glass for 2004 at Appleby College Chapel in Oakville , Ontario . Her work is characterized by solid, clear lines and multicolor. Kenozhuak Ashevak’s work was marked by a large number of awards: in particular, back in 1967 she became an officer of the Order of Canada (in 1982 she became his companion) [8] , in 1974 she became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts , and in 2008 received an award in the field of art from the Governor General of Canada.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ Famous Native American Women - Kenojuak unopened (unreachable link) (July 3, 2008). Date of treatment March 19, 2018. Archived July 3, 2008.
- ↑ Kenojuak , Native American Rhymes, Rhodes Educational Publications, 2005. Accessed January 8, 2013.
- ↑ Liz Sonneborn. A to Z of American Indian Women . - Infobase Publishing, 2014 .-- 337 p. - ISBN 9781438107882 .
- ↑ Mark Lipman . Kenojuak Ashevak, renowned Inuit artist, dies at 85 (Eng.) , The Toronto Star (January 8, 2013). Date of treatment March 19, 2018.
- ↑ Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak dies at 85 , CBC News (January 8, 2013). Date of treatment March 19, 2018.
- ↑ Government of Canada, Office of the Secretary to the Governor General, Information and Media Services. Order of Canada . archive.gg.ca. Date of treatment March 19, 2018.
Links
The Enchanted Owl (1960)
- Historica Canada. Heritage Minutes: Kenojuak Ashevak Neopr . YouTube (10/19/2016).