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Northern Renaissance - Orthodox Depiction

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  Cimabue (1240-1302) Santa Trinita Maesta (1280-1290) When doing the assigned reading into the intended Renaissance for both Northern and Italian, I mainly was interested into the Northern Renaissance since, the similarity of these iconography are inspired to the Orthodox Church. As the reasoning would be to how each of the icons look, as a religious person, who grew up knowing Orthodoxy. This kind of painting, I would see it around the churches, I visited and attended. The example I would be mentioning would be Saint Innocent Orthodox Church in Anchorage, this is a cathedral for all of the other Orthodox churches around Alaska.  When seeking through with researching around a good article for informational content, I found this one depicting as it would mention a crypt detachment to the Roman art style, contrary to the belief the article would describe "not only would the key painting would be related to a change to society, politics, science and the world as a whole" (Hoakl...
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Art Element - Rural Alaska Life

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About the Artist   This painting was published by Ryder Erickson, He is a self-taught artist, born and raised in Alaska. When he was a young boy, he didn't have any experience with any help in making art. So he turned to his family, mainly his uncle who was an Inupiat artist, In the beginning he was interested in drawing and painting when he was in this younger days at school and when he was growing up. This also effected, when he read a book about classic folk tales on Alaska.  Description of the Painting                                      Old Town Coastal Village - July, 15 2015 In the beginning creating this beautiful painting, he was thinking about the terms of a rural description into a painting form. As he was growing up in the village, it was a positive background to show the lifestyle of "Growing Up In the Village". I was reading through with the Article about this way of s...
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Introduction

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 Hello, My Name is Justina Wassillie.  This is my first time using a blog post, I am from the lower regions of Bethel and moved here at the end of 2014, so I have lived here for ten years. As I lived in the river near Bethel, I was surrounded by an area full of art. For example, In my traditional dancing, we would wear accessories full of beadwork, gloves with fur and beadwork, and a headdress with a Qasp'aq. Even though with the traditional dancing, in these dances back in the days, they would wear mask carvings of their art. These masks were indicated to change the weather and grant good fortune to their lives, and even the villages.  Yupik people, Complex Mask 1890-1905.  Fun Fact: This Mask belonged to my great-great-great Grandfather from my dad's side, his name was Guzma Wasili. He was a shaman, from what my dad told me this was used to change the weather, he would use this mask outside and start traditionally dancing outside to get out the bad weather. Bu...
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