Lilly Byrd ART200x

  Sandro Botticelli Portrait of a Young Woman. Portrait of a Young Woman by Sandro Botticelli (1480-1485). Sandro Botticelli was an artist in the early renaissance. He is always known for starving towards beauty and virtue in all his paintings. I choose this painting because I was drawn to all the details throughout it. The lightning from the window behind the woman draws the viewer's eye to the woman's face. The darkness of the background also draws the viewer's eye to the woman's outfit. The presentation of the woman sideview gives a sense of mystery and aloofness. Not being the front profile, it makes you wonder more about the mystery woman.     I would definitely own a copy of this artwork. The backstory of this is very interesting it is rumored that Sandro Botticelli made multiple paintings of very similar looking woman which all of been named Portrait of a Young Woman. Sandro Botticelli was patronaged by the Medici family. His work was also influenced by humanist ...

I decided to walk around the Museum of the North here on the UAF campus to get some inspiration of what art I wanted to do for this week's blog post. It was so hard to pick what art pieces to use. I highly recommend going to visit the museum. The one that I settled on after a long debate is Off to the Trapline by Fred Machetanz in1984. I could not find exactly where Fred Machetanz painted Off to the Trapline but if I had to make an educated guess. I would guess that he painted it in Alaska. It is an oil on Masonite. For those of you who don't know what that means don't worry I didn't either. Oil on Masonite means an oil-based painting on a Masonite board. A Masonite board is a hardboard that is used similarly to a canvas. What drew me to this piece was the focus being on the dogs instead of the mushers. The texture of the mountains gives it a real life feeling. The snow tail that the dog sled is going through also adds to this. Fred Machetanz used shading to add texture...