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Сообщение от Veronic

and the artists were men of the privileged (as shamans, for example).

Yes, you're right. That is exactly what happened, but the servants also helped his master, as, for example, paint alone can not be a pyramid.

Here a piece of abstract about Egyptian art:

Leading artists - architects, sculptors and painters (especially architects) - were high-ranking officials, often by priests, their names were known and are surrounded by honor. Architect Hemiunu, managing the construction of the pyramid of Cheops, was the nephew of the king. Before we reached the portrait statue of Hemiunu: he is depicted sit on a cubic pedestal in the same fixed, frontal, strictly symmetrical pose, as the Pharaoh Chephren.

Artists were proud of the acts of his hands and mind almost as well as kings of their victories, only the hymns of the kings began with the words: "I am ruined ..." "I conquered ..." and hymns of artists: "I have raised up ..." "I built ... .

Nevertheless, the manifestation of an individual artist will be strictly limited: the role it was thought of as the role of custodian of the sacred canons, the arbiter of divine will.

Because unlike the short earthly life art was considered the bearer of eternal life, then it is exempt from all instant, changeable, unstable. Egyptian art to develop a language that meets the idea of permanence - economical graphic sign language, a strict and clear line, clear the path, compact generalized maximum volume.

In ancient kingdom formed a strictly defined types of articles: standing - is it a hard, straightening up the front of linen, his head raised high, left foot steps forward, his arms are lowered and pressed to the body; sitting - symmetrically laid his hands on his knees and one arm bent at the elbow, torso also rectified, gaze is directed into the distance. These types of articles appeared later in the Middle and in the new kingdom, and in the late Saissky period of Egyptian history. In the reliefs of the Old Kingdom has established a tradition of spreading a kind of figure on the plane. The head and legs depicted in profile, torso and deployed at the whole of the figure depicted with a single elastic line. Principle drawing always remained. Cases in which a man's head was placed in the FAS, were rare and appeared in the New Kingdom.

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