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Even since the predynastic era,
the Egypt`s people were skilled at reproducing the nature
through drawings full of color; to realize the perfection
reached by the Egyptian artists we have to look the ancient
Egyptian drawings that totally cover the walls of the tombs. To
understand well the Egyptian drawings we have to leave away the
norms that have the origins in the classical Greek art that we
have in our mind every time we judge an art that doesn`t fit to
those conceptions. The ancient Egyptian drawings had their own
norms, fixed even from the beginning of the Old Kingdom,
determined by reasons with religious, aesthetic and social
character. The Egyptian art had religious character and those
from the tombs` walls were not just décor but they also had to
portray beings that would have life in a magic way, to wait on
the ka (the soul) of the deceased. There was a socially
convention according to which the persons had to be represented
at dimensions that were proportional with the persons ` rank.
The people were seen from profile and if they were turned to the
right they could only walk with the left foot and the left hand
in front of them, from aesthetically reasons. On the temples`
walls were drawings adequate to every part. In the hypostyle
halls the temple was narrating in drawings the god` s life and
the myths related to his terrestrial existence. The god is
represented in all his manifestations, sitting on a throne, in a
procession or announcing his decisions through gestures. The
pharaoh is painted everywhere because he is a god indispensable
to the cult` s celebration, being in direct dialog with the
gods, not like the other mortals who communicate with the
divinity only through the pharaoh-god. |
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