Colour is a very important element in aesthetics, because by itself it provokes immediate emotions. A colour can determine a state of mind, predispose us to something or even influence someone’s attitude. Effects of Colours in our Emotions. The cold colours, like blue, green or violet, relax and calm. That is thanks to their association […]
Continue reading →The artist in Ancient Egypt was part of the elite and worked very close to the Court. But his importance did not come from his proximity to the Royal House. Let’s see more about it… 1. The Egyptian artists were specialised workers. Very early in history in Ancient Egypt there were a specialised collective of […]
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Official or private, formal or informal, the art of ancient Egypt had some characteristics in its production. These features formed a common denominator and helped to give uniformity and cohesion to the art of ancient Egypt. The Lack of Emotions in the Art of Ancient Egypt In the faces of the people from paintings, reliefs […]
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The Senet game in the funerary sphere was a path to eternity. The deceased played alone this “countdown” to the eternal life. To arrive to the last square meant that he or she was going to live forever. At that point the decoration on the last three squares of the board are crucial to understand […]
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The senet in Ancient Egypt was an enterteinment board game, but in the funerary sphere it was also a way of reaching the eternity.
Continue reading →To understand the figure of the Egyptian artist it is convenient to differentiate art and craft in ancient Egyptian art. Ancient Egyptians just had the word hemuu (Hmww), for referring to the workers who carried out a work. In addition, those ones could be classified into three categories: artist, artisan and worker. Egyptian artist: main […]
Continue reading →The idea of duality referred to good and evil confronted and linked. And it also meant two halves, which formed a unity. Duality is Egypt. Egypt itself evoked also that idea of duality, because the country was formed by two parts: Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. For that reason, the ancient Egyptians referred to it […]
Continue reading →In the ideological thinking of Ancient Egypt, duality played a crucial role. The equilibrium principle could not exist without the imbalance; and in front of the idea of order was that of disorder. Duality in Egyptian landscape. Duality was supported by the Egyptian geography itself: In front of the cultivable and fertile area was the arid […]
Continue reading →The uniformity of Egyptian Art had also political basis. Pharaoh and Uniformity in Egyptian Art. In the state sphere, the Egyptian society required a balance, which depended directly on Pharaoh. The Egyptian monarchy was an institution with double nature, divine and human. The sovereign, by his superhuman essence, was the one who mediated between the […]
Continue reading →Plastic manifestations in Egyptian art remain almost unchanged for more than three millennia. Why? Art is something intimately linked with human feeling, with its conception of the world and with its ideology. But Egyptian art is the product of a collective feeling. It is no an individual matter. For that reason, Egyptian art must be conceived […]
Continue reading →Egyptian art had a magical-functional purpose and did not take into consideration the figure of the spectator. For that reason, we cannot consider Egyptian art from just an aesthetic empiricism. Which makes art feel in a subjective way through sensations. We must read the Egyptian Art from the technical realization, but also from its ideological-religious […]
Continue reading →The image in Ancient Egypt had a power in itself. Why? Because in addition to evoking a reality, they made it arise. In Ancient Egypt everything that was depicted was also happening. The Power of Scenes on Walls. The mural scenes that we observe in the mastabas of the Old Kingdom depict very realistically scenes […]
Continue reading →It is necessary to know the physical space in which an ancient Egyptian plastic production is located in order to analyse it. Reliefs, paintings and statues of ancient Egypt we know come mainly from temples and / or tombs, that is, from sacred spaces impregnated with spirituality. The art of Ancient Egypt was not “contemplated”. […]
Continue reading →The artists of Ancient Egypt had a particular conception of perspective, which affected in the way they depicted groups of living beings and amounts of things. In our last posts we saw how in Ancient Egypt the funerary scene of Osiris being flanked by Isis and Nephthys was usually depicted with the two mourners of […]
Continue reading →Tha artist in Ancient Egypt followed the rule of depicting children with the side lock of hair. However, this archetype so common in the Old and Middle Kingdom, had some changes from the New Kingdom on. It is specially evident in the mourning scenes. Among the mourners usually some young girls can be seen taking […]
Continue reading →One of the main challenges for priests and artists in Ancient Egypt were to combine the osirian and solar cosmogonies in the funerary literature and iconography. The two main pillars in the belief of resurrection in Ancient Egypt were the myth of Osiris and the solar theory. The central aspect in the first one was the […]
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