Egyptian art- Passion for ordinary

Egyptian art - Passion for ordinary 

The Sphinx of Giza

Egyptian culture had a passion for ordinary. They used to draw the human body in a different way. The body were transformed in a V shape from chest, the arms of a human figure used to be mostly with arms together facing the same direction of the face and feet. The fingers were with the same size. The eyes made them unique and unrealistic and stiff. The pose cannot be that way in real like.  Egyptian art lasted approximately 3000 years and for all these years the Egypt only saw this type of figure. It was done to show a type of style for the Egyptian culture.

Ordinary was an important thing for Egyptians in fact they found grids marked with red on walls to always repeat the same figure style. The pupil of the eye used to be marked on a grid centered.  The grids show clearly how the style never changed at that time. Everything had order in Egyptian culture even the famous pyramids and the sculptures. 

The traditional way they used to paint

how they use to draw ans sculpt on stone with grids

Pharaohs

Different types of Pharaohs:

Akhenaton: It was made for religious belifs especially for a god named Amon. Amon was ranked in the best position in Thebes. By time the sculpture changed their spiritual belifs to Aten  who was a god of the sun for the Egyptians.

Sneferu:

Sneferu is the originater of the 4th Dynasty which is also recognized as the age of the Pyramids.  Sneferu was the one who finished the building of the Meuidum Pyramids and was capable to built the famouse bent and red pyramids. He was known as the beneficent ruler becuase he was doing good In the ancient

red pyramids from Sneferu

Akhenaton sculpture style

Burial walls: 

They used to fill the walls with paintings to help the afterlife persons which were powerfull and rich. The believed that they will be happier in a wall full of paintings.  In the paintings often were pictured happy in the afterlife and some are with their children and wife and also some scenes doing their hobby.

on of the painting that were in the tomb walls of the rich and powerful people.

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