Ancient Egyptian Art: Sculpture and Painting
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Sculpture
Key Features
- Stone (royal) and wood (private) materials
- Predominantly free-standing or almost in the round
- Frontal view design
- Statism (lack of movement)
- Arms arranged along the body with fists (block statues)
- Expressionless faces, distant gaze (hieratic)
- Idealized, proportionate representation
Painting
Mural Painting
- Mixed technique (cool and tempera)
- Decorated tomb interiors (e.g., Valley of the Kings)
- Iconography: afterlife and real-life scenes
- Mythology, royal life, daily life themes
- Flat, intense colors (preference for warm tones)
- Precise drawing, gridded surfaces
- Combined perspective and profile view
- Juxtaposed figures, sense of physicality
- Lack of three-dimensional perspective
- Scenes structured by logs (bands with rows of characters)