The Characteristics of Ancient Art of Egypt

The ancient Egyptian civilization, with its artistic greatness, left an impact on the arts of the East in general, and the ancient Egyptians left many monuments that refer to Egyptian art and its exciting beauty, which is difficult to count, and which has been lost more than it was found, and what is left of it until now cannot be compared to what was stolen or lost. As a result of other factors, and what has not yet been discovered.

Ancient Egyptian art was known and famous in the writings of artists in general, whether contemporary or those who preceded them. They described the state of ancient Egyptian art by referring to the extent of prosperity that characterized it. Artists of this era that the areas of their paintings were not specific and confined to the habit of art, but were characterized by wide even to include the walls of tombs and columns of temples ، And stones and rocks, and they took, for example, photography as well as sculpture, various methods in and of themselves, so they began to fluctuate between idealism at times and approaching objectivity at other times, and they did not overlook realism as well, using the materials available to them from stones, copper, and wood. Ancient Egyptian art was distinguished by some features that included it from Other arts, which were not limited to describing Arabic books, but was also included in Western literature and influenced different civilizations.

Color attributes in ancient Egyptian art

• When talking about the use of colors in ancient Egyptian art, it appears to the student, the experienced, and the art connoisseur the extent of the frankness of the colors used. It serves art clearly and does not overlook the artist's vision, and in the decoration, colors were used skillfully so that whoever sees them notices the joy, and the consistency full of movement, without losing the right of the decorations in the colors.

• Consistency and survival over the long years, how to this day it still refers to the connotations and retains its colors.

• Colors in ancient Egyptian art are characterized by symbolism, that colors are not considered joy only, but refer to the land, agriculture, civilization, and the extent of the close connection between them and the personality of the ancient Egyptian, so that the colors become expressive in their symbolism, referring to the brown color to the clay of the environment as if the artist with every color was deliberately Pronunciation of the colors of earth and life.

• Accuracy and clarity of colors, and adapting them in portraying what he presents.

Characteristics of the ancient Egyptian art style

• Ancient Egyptian art was characterized by its unity and its ability to follow organized rules, as it is not random art, and those remained its rules that were not violated except in exceptions from the eras in which the artist allowed himself to come out with art to reality, and not fully adhere to the rules and snatch a bit of freedom Although these periods were not many and long, they were already tangible in art, with exceptions mostly granted to him by the political and economic conditions of the same era.

• The method adopted by ancient Egyptian art is characterized by being a recording tool that records reality using drawing and reflects it with the tools available to it.

• Ancient Egyptian art relied on what it had settled on in terms of sizes in drawing figures, as it made each character a size determined by its weight within society. You will not find, for example, the size of the ruler similar to the size of an individual from the general public. It indicates greatness and there is no objection to adding some types of fear and awe to it.

• Art trends were characterized by clear delineation of the angles in which they were drawn, ways of highlighting the characteristics of bodies, and consideration of faces, chests, and sides of the body in the design.

• The art of this time was also characterized by expressive lines dominated by symbolism and relied more on expression through the use of decoration.

• One of the most prominent features of the ancient Egyptian art style is its adoption of proportions in drawing, not neglecting the ratio of sizes to each other and between each first carved statue or drawing a ratio determined by the gender, male, female or child, as well as the purpose of drawing it in influencing the viewer of art, and how the power and scenes of kings are.

• The attributes of this art were not completely separated from the attributes of the era itself. Whenever the era was politically and economically prosperous, artists accompanied it with artistic prosperity, expressing that state in their art.

Features of sculptures in ancient Egyptian art

• Sculptures in this era were characterized by abstraction, sharpness, and reliance on geometric shapes and their stagnation, but it gives them the characteristic of survival and not being affected by environmental factors and weather conditions.

• For the ancient Egyptians, the statue does not just a sculpture, but rather it has an ideological significance that gives it survival for the longest possible time because the artist believes that there is immortality like the eternity of the sun from his perspective, which made him while carving his statues, not empty them so that they remain and last and remain immortal with the survival of time.

• ancient Egyptian art was characterized by a feature that seemed evident in its various types of art, which are calmness, poise, and stillness, to be in line with what it believed in ideas about life, death, resurrection, and graves.

Factors affecting ancient Egyptian art

• One of the most influential things in ancient Egyptian art was its environment itself of mud and water, and all forms of a surface at that time.

• Ancient Egyptian art was influenced by the way he ruled, which he used to show in his drawings and sculptures, and his art in general.

• It raised a group of customs, ideas, and what was termed traditions in the ancient Egyptian arts.

• Among the factors that affected ancient Egyptian architecture and also affected ancient Egyptian art in general were its beliefs, its religion, and its view of death, life, and the gods. Religion had a great impact on its art.

• The economic factor in ancient Egypt had a very impact and a significant role in the ancient Egyptian arts, and it was engraved with its tools for farming crops and using its ore in art.

- The culture and environment that have also affected art.

The evolution of some science in ancient Egypt had an impact on the arts.

Sculpture in ancient Egyptian art

The Governor in the history of sculpture in ancient Egyptian art will find that there is a diversity between carving the bodies of kings and wisdom, carving for the general public, and the graphs and carving of the public or even ordinary members of ancient Egyptian society have not captured the interest and proficiency of the ancient Egyptian artists, and the artist here was not intended to move away from the idea that the statue would be placed next to the deceased upon burial, often inaccuracy

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