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
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