Saturday, May 18, 2013

The Art of the Egyptian Papyri."Part-3"



The Art of the Egyptian Papyri  
Within the New Kingdom period, 1500- 1100 B.C, the funeral papyri “Book of the dead” became widely spread around the whole country and also it became affordable to others than royals. The popularity and the spread for that type of papyrus books had synchronized with a simplicity trend for the accompanying art of those papyri. The use of the classical drawings in book of the dead, in ancient Egypt, did require a highly skilled artist as well as much of time which had a negative effect on papyrus cost while the use of the simplified art on papyrus which requires less skilled artist and takes less time to finish was a help to allow major number of people to get it. The Egyptian artist used the stroke-order style or the simplified for the repeated and exact god’s figures which used to be made in classical style before. The  figures above show the simplified style for a man  and the possible strokes led to have them drawn. Another example of such stroke-order use is  for the funeral papyrus of khonu ,the 18th dynasty where the stroke –order rule is applied –F-1


The following stages are the possible ones to create such stereotype images on Khunso Papyrus.





Stage-1 it simply done by drawing the human head and the head dress.



Stage-2. is done by drawing a straight line which ends with a human hand.



Stage-3. drawing the disc
 


Stage-4. drawing a slash to represent the torso and the left leg.



Stage-5. is where to draw what looks almost like a straight line which refers to the back and the right leg for the human figure.
Written and painted by Yasser Kamel for www.museumegypt.blogspot.com.All rights reserved.



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