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A history of Soapstone

Article Category: Arts and Crafts

Author Name: John duVal

◦ Soapstone provides sculptors in almost all colors, ie: spotty gray-white, mottled-green, dark-brown, black, pink and yellow. To create their masterpieces, Inuit artists use axes to scale down the larger stones, then chisels, rasps and water proof sand paper to finish and polish the stone. Today, a few younger artists, especially those who reside in Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, Canada, use power tools to devoid and shape the larger stones and for the larger works, and dental grinding tools for more detailed work. Completed pieces of sculpture may be highly polished or not, according to the artist's desire, and today can fetch prices ranging from fifty-dollars to one-hundred thousand dollars on the world market and at auction houses, through private and co-operative sales and Inuit art galleries and sources, located throughout the world. 

◦ Soapstone carvings created as far back as three-thousand years ago during the Ming dynasty, when jade prices skyrocketed and because of the high price of jade, many sculptors turned soapstone, the dark green variety of which looks exactly like jade, as their medium for carving art works, urns, stamps and mythological creatures such as dragons, etc.. A good number of these pieces, in pristine condition, have been found in China as recently as today.

◦ The art of soapstone carving gradually spread to Europe and around the rest of the world in time. Artisans in ancient Greece carved soapstone to make urns and other vessels as well as statues when marble was scarce. Vikings made jewelry and soapstone has been a favorite medium in Africa. Africa, sculptors in Zimbabwe produced many soapstone sculptures as did artists in the middle east, particularly Iran. 

◦ Historically, art creation, sculpture, represented only one of the many uses for soapstone. In primordial China, it was used to make dishes, cooking utensils and urns, jars, and is still in use in Scandinavia as well as other European countries for like purposes. 

◦ Artists today, especially Inuit artists, continue to create sculptures out of serpentine soapstone, creating images of caribou, polar bears, inukshuks, hunters, people engaged in activities including sports, throat singing, mothering, arctic wolves, fish, seals and walrus, kayaks: all the fauna hayt populate the arctic, and especially the Sedna, the sea goddess who r all life, the weather, and fortunes of the Inuit people. Soapstone is also used to surround fire pits, in igloos, as cutting boards, shelves and working bench tops and in homes in the various communities, in addition to art, soapstone can be used to line in-home fireplaces and certain masonry heaters.



Keywords: soapstone, stone sculpture, inuit art, stone carving, arctic art

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