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Miyuki Tanobe
Miyuki Tanobe
Born	1937 (age 87–88); Morioka, Japan
Nationality	Japanese, Canadian
Alma mater	Guédaï University, école des beaux-arts de Tokyo, Japon; Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France; École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris
Known for	painter, nihonga
Notable work	The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy in 1983
Elected	Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 1994; Officer of the National Order of Quebec, 1995; member of the Order of Canada, 2002, medal-holder of the Ordre du Jubilée, 2002
Patron(s)	Taru Tanabe, Seison Maeda, Roger Chapelain-Midy

Miyuki Tanobe CM OQ RCA (born 1937 in Morioka, Japan) is a Japanese-born Canadian painter, based in Montreal, Quebec. She is known for her paintings of the everyday life of Montreal residents.^[1] Her work is in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée du Québec, Lavalin, Pratt & Whitney, and Shell Canada, and Selection du Reader’s Digest. She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Early life and education

Tanobe was born in 1937 in Morioka, Japan. Because there was a violent snowstorm raging on the day she was born, her parents named her Miyuki, which means "deep snow". Tanobe attended Japanese primary and secondary schools.

In 1963, possessing incipient artistic gifts, she painted at the studio of La Grande Chaumière in Paris before registering at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, France's leading school of fine arts. Miyuki Tanobe’s arrival in Canada in 1971 came as a result of a chance meeting in Paris with Maurice Savignac, her future husband, a French Canadian from Montreal.^[1]

Work

Miyuki Tanobe’s work reflects a freedom of action. She paints principally on rigid supports such as wood or masonite sheets. Her panels are filled with scenes that she has observed like children playing ice hockey.^[2]^[3]

Her modern primitive works depict everyday life in the working-class neighborhoods of Montreal with humour and great sensitivity.^[4] She transforms "humble and unavoidable reality" by reformulating it, adding or deleting elements depending on her assessment of their contribution to the scene. A painting by Miyuki Tanobe goes to the heart of the matter: the artist is interested in opening the viewers' eyes so that they may better see the familiar and adjust their perceptions of what they think they know.

In 1980 Tanobe illustrates the song "Gens de mon pays" by Gilles Vigneault^[5] and in 1983 she creates pictures for The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy.^[6] The colours in Miyuki’s paintings are rich and full of contrast. Working with superimposed layers and applying pigments with her pliable, flexible Japanese brush, Miyuki Tanobe succeeds in revealing unexpected aspects of the objects and people she depicts without making them difficult to read.^[7] She paints in Nihonga.^[8]^[9]

She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.^[10]^[11]

In 2012 a mural was painted for Tanobe in Verdun.^[12]

Collections

Her work is found in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,^[13] Musée de Joliette, Musée Saidye Bronfman, Montréal.

Recognition

In 1979, she was the subject of a National Film Board of Canada documentary short My Floating World: Miyuki Tanobe, directed by Ian Rankin, Stephan Steinhouse and Marc F. Voizard.^[2]

2012 : Radio-Canada, Miyuki Tanobe and the mural of Verdun ^[14]
1987 : Radio-Québec, Le Magazine
1985 : Radio-Québec, Arrimage
1982 : CBC, Seeing It Our Way

Published Work / Illustrations

Roch Carrier, Miyuki Tanobe, Canada je t'aime = Canada I love you, Montréal: livres Toundra, 1991, 72 p^[15]
Miyuki Tanobe, Québec je t’aime, Montréal: Éditions Toundra, 1976, 48 p^[7]
Miyuki Tanobe, Gilles Vigneault, Les gens de mon pays, Montréal: Les éditions La courte échelle, 1980^[16]
Yves Beauchemin, Cybèle, Coffret de luxe de sérigraphies, Montréal: Art global, 1982^[17]

References

^ ^a ^b Plourde-Arche, Léa (10 June 2013). "A mural for Miyuki Tanobe, painter of street life in Montreal". Untapped Cities. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
^ ^a ^b "My Floating World: Miyuki Tanobe by Ian Rankin, Stephan Steinhouse, Marc F. Voizard". Office national du film du Canada. Archived from the original on 30 June 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
^ "Hockey in Our Society - Pictorial Art". Virtual Museum. The Canadian Heritage Information Network. 2001. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014.
^ "Second Grade Print - Monday Washing Day, 1972 - By Miyuki Tanobe" (PDF). Chandler Unified School District (Lesson plan for second grade art activity and discussion). Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 June 2022. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
^ Miyuki Tanobe, Gilles Vigneault, Les gens de mon pays, Montréal: Les éditions La courte échelle, 1980
^ Léo Rosshandler, Miyuki Tanobe, Tanobe, LaPrairie, Quebec: Éditions M. Broquet, 1988, p. 28
^ ^a ^b Simmons, Dale (May 1985). "Book Review - Québec, Je T'aime / l Love You by Miyuki Tanobe". CM: A Reviewing Journal of Canadian Materials for Young People. 13 (3). Archived from the original on 21 February 2023. Retrieved 20 February 2023 – via CM Archives.
^ Mobilereference (2007). Asian Art. ISBN 9781605011875.
^ "Biography of Miyuki Tanobe". Jean-Pierre Valentin Gallery. Archived from the original on 28 June 2022. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
^ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
^ "Miyuki Tanobe". Atelier 85. Archived from the original on 21 February 2023. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
^ "Murals". Montreal Canadiens. NHL. Archived from the original on 21 February 2023. Retrieved 20 February 2023. Mural produced by MU (www.mumtl.org) and created by Annie Hamel based on the original work of Miyuki Tanobe.
^ "Miyuke Tanobe". Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (in French). Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
^ "REPORTAGE | MU @ Radio-Canada-Téléjournal de 22h, 2012". November 2012.
^ Canada je t'aime = Canada I love you. Archived from the original on 2014-02-25.
^ "Les gens de mon pays". WorldCat.org. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
^ "Cybèle". WorldCat.org. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
^ Rosshandler, Leo; Tanobe, Miyuki (1980). Tanobe. ISBN 9782890000346.