by mrvaldesogo | Jan 28, 2019 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
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...
by mrvaldesogo | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
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...
by mrvaldesogo | Feb 5, 2018 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
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...
by mrvaldesogo | Jan 15, 2018 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
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...
by mrvaldesogo | Nov 16, 2017 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
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...