living forever that´s immortality.
Studying art of the Ancient Egypt is considering their beliefs. The Egyptians believed that the body must be preserved if the soul is to live on in the beyond. That is why they prevented the corpse from decaying by an elaborate method of embalming it, and binding it up with strips of cloth. It was for the mummy of the king that the pyramid had been piled up, and his body was laid right in the centre of the huge mountain of stone in a stone coffin. Everywhere round the burial chamber, spells and incantations were written to help him on his journey to the other world.
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Ancient Egyptian art forms are characterized by regularity and detailed depiction of human beings and the nature, and, were intended to provide company to the deceased in the 'other world'. Artists' endeavored to preserve everything of the present time as clearly and permanently as possible. Completeness took precedence over prettiness. Some art forms present an extraordinarily vivid representation of the time and the life, as the ancient Egyptian life was lived thousand of years before.
Egyptian art in all forms obeyed one law: the mode of representing man, nature and the environment remained almost the same for thousands of years and the most admired artists were those who replicated most admired styles of the past. (crystalinks.com) You can check up the webpage of the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
The Pharaoh was the image of God here on Earth. So his orders have to be followed, obviously, his image and the one of his wife will appear according to the beauty canon of egyptians, not according to reality.
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Now it is time to put on practice your skills as an egyptian artist. You will have to create a full body portrait about your peer. Copy him/her following the statements of the Ancient Frontaityl law. This says:
"Law of frontality: Pharaohs were both human and divine, so it was necessary to depict them distinctively. In painting or relief (sculpture where figures project from a background), the prescribed way to draw the pharaoh was with profile head, legs, arms, and stomach, but frontal shoulders, torso and eyes. In free-standing sculpture, the perspective of the pharaoh was frontal, at a 90 degree angle, rigid and bisymmetrical. Although the proportions of the figures changed over time, this basic canon was used by artists to depict all Egyptian pharaohs for three thousand years, from Narmer to Cleopatra, with the exception of Akenaten." (http://moas.org/images/files/TheGloriesOfAncientEgyptTeachersGuide.pdf) Rules of Frontality:
Room number: art-2013 Finally, get into the blog and post your answers to the questions about Mesopotian and egyptian art.
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