Painting and Sculpture. Strictly followed by ALL Egyptian artists Every part of the body shown from most familiar point of view Head, arms, feet, legs.

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Painting and Sculpture

Strictly followed by ALL Egyptian artists Every part of the body shown from most familiar point of view Head, arms, feet, legs always shown in profile Eyes and shoulders always shown from the front. Paintings and sculptures = substitutes for the body

The Great Sphinx at Giza  The head: Pharaoh (4 th dynasty Khafre)  The body: reclining lion  65 feet high  Old Kingdom  Carved from rock onsite

 Quietly aloof = symbol of eternal strength & power  Falcon (Horus, god of the sky) behind head = Khafre’s divinity (descendent of Re, the sun god.)  NO ONE questioned divine power and authority

 Middle Kingdom; rare  Fragment of portrait of King Sesostris III  Expressive facial features  Authority depended on personality, strength and cleverness

 Realistic  Heavy lips, long slender neck, elongated head, pointed chin  Not solemn or stiff;  Shown in common everyday scenes Most artwork after his death continued this tradition

 Relief Sculpture  Head, arms, legs, and feet in profile  Shoulders and eye as seen from the front  Body correctly proportioned

Grew as an art form during Middle Kingdom Process: Walls of cliff tombs smoothed over with coating of plaster Horizontal and vertical straight lines drawn Figures and animals arranged along the lines to tell a story Pictures colored with red and yellow hues, with black and blue-green added for contrast No shading

Early form of picture writing Symbols represented objects and sounds Included in wall paintings and other art forms to tell story from a life Symbols spaced to form attractive patterns…extremely important No vowels, only consonants. No punctuation or spacing.

Over 700 symbols representing actual words Thousands symbols used for individual sounds Written both vertically in rows and horizontally in columns. No empty spaces. When human and animal glyphs face to the right, the text should be read from right to left. Conversely, when the glyphs face left, the text should be read left to right.humananimal

Hieroglyphs could be written left to right. But they were usually written right to left.

 Numbering system based on units of 10.  Used different images to represent different units of ,00010,0001,

 Cartouche: picture writing used to create a pictogram

Painting on the wall = the priest’s ka to pass through in search of offerings