Few Egypt

[ottenki_serogo]

Without historical comments, date and authorship - just art.

[Meister]

By the way, about Egyptian art. and you know that the art of the Egyptians was based not on artistic ability of a resident. it was a result of complex mathematical calculations. Plane rascherchivalas in accordance with the principles of the "golden triangle" and the Egyptians were calculated with the help of mathematics, where some part of the figure should be. That is, the artist could not be any, because they did not need anything draw in, it was enough to draw a line on the points, as in children's books), I was struck by this fact in his time.
P.S. it was more than 10 thousand years BC.

[Артём]

Сообщение от Meister

it was enough to draw a line on the points

   "Yes of course!" No artistic images. "Dui, yes Push!"

[Meister]

Сообщение от Artem

"Yes, of course!" No artistic images. "Dui, yes Push!"

is you do not believe me?

[nikola]

Сообщение от Meister

needed to draw in anything, it was enough to draw a line on the points,

Russian artists say, "Painting is easy. You take the necessary paint
and you put in the right place "

[Артём]

Meister, readily believe a story to tell could be an element in the architectonics of constructing a certain artistic image! Not as simple as it seems.

[Meister]

Artem, of course, the image you first need to be developed))) but you compare the Egyptian drawings, schematically the figures are identical, and face, and posture ... of course, I can not take my child to all levels. I was amazed that virtually anyone could be in Egypt, "artist"

[Veronic]

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Artem, of course, the image you first need to be developed))) but you compare the Egyptian drawings, schematically the figures are identical, and face, and posture ... of course, I can not take my every child level. I was amazed that virtually anyone could be in Egypt, "artist"

Unfortunately, I am not an expert on Egyptian culture, but it seems to me that this knowledge carefully concealed from the rest of the people and artists were privileged people (such as shamans, for example). Or, indeed have access to the letter?

[Meister]

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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.

If anyone interested, here is more: http://www.erudition.ru/referat/ref/id.25910_1.html

[Konstantin]

He jumped and went into the desert

We now turn to the notes of Herodotus concerning Egypt. Father of history in 445 BC. e. told about the smallest detail of the great pyramids and ranked them first to the wonders of the world. He wrote, how long were erected giant pyramidal mountains pharaohs and how many slaves worked on the stones.

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He scrupulously listed, as they brought garlic, radishes, dry cakes. But in his 'History', which recorded the 'all that is seen and heard in Egypt', the Greek does not mention the Sphynx a single word. But Herodotus was not blind, as Homer! I could not fail to notice the giant lion in front of the pyramids? Nevertheless, he did not see!

Before Herodotus in Egypt, has gathered the wisdom Hecataeus of Miletus, and after him - Hecataeus Abdersky and znamety geographer and traveler Strabo. They note circumstantial, but the Sphinx and the reason they do not mention. Conspiracy of silence? But in the Greek epic then there were myths about the Sphynx!

And where did the Egyptians in general? Now, there are Arabs. About the Sphinx has several versions, they say the sand was covered with regularly, so nevideli Greeks - but somehow unconvincing.