Sunday, 18 May 2014

Art blog 4- Presentation


Egyptian Art

The type of art is 5 thousand years old. Characteristics of Egyptian art are simple lines, stylized graphics, and realistic colouring.  Their paintings and sculptures were expressive, symbolic and fascinating. It was also very stylized art. And it represents the emphasis of their afterlife and the preservation of the past knowledge. As it was very symbolic even the colours were symbolic for example blue or gold represent divinity because of its unnatural appearance and association with precious materials, the black represent the fertility of Egypt, yellow was the colour that was used for painting the figure of a woman of a working man indoors and red was used for working men outdoors. Other things were also considered for example largest figure were painted to represent the king or the pharaoh to symbolize the superhuman power other figures were drawn in a smallest scale as servants, entertainers, animals, trees and other details.






 
 

St. Petersburg Times, 1999. Egypt: Art and Architecture [online] Available at:http://www2.sptimes.com/Egypt/EgyptCredit.4.4.html[Accessed 18 May 2014 ]


 
 
 

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