Ancient Egyptian Art Research

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Before any wall project, Egyptians would first plan out what they’re going to be building. They would sketch out their ideas on papyrus paper, using a grid system. After they sketched their plan out, they would make the same grid on the wall with red painted string. This made drawing allot easier(Mia).
The Egyptians had many different varieties of art. They made statues mostly with stone, but they used many different materials, from lapiz lazuli, to schist (calvert). The Egyptians used harder rock to carve, such as bronze and copper, and they made them to tools like saws and picks (Sanders, 2017). To polish, they used abrasive sand and a smooth rubbing stone. Even though you may not see it anymore, many of the egyptian statues were actually painted life like (calvert). …show more content…

The most famous of all ancient Egyptian scripts is hieroglyphic.

Preferred colors
In ancient Egypt they use the 6 kind of the color that for their culture and also of there part of a city's. Like for the black and white colors mean like the life and death and the name call kem and for the blue means that the color of the water that water of the god gave them the free drink for them call irtyu and for the green means that the ground and for the tree and fruit like lots of the tree stuff call wahdj and for the yellow means that the color of the people that the men and the woman of the skin's color so that are the meanig call khenet finally the color of the red means the desert like the meaning of the sand call kemet

purpose of their art expression
Ancient Egyptian art is five thousand years old. It emerged and took shape in the ancient Egypt, the civilization of the Nile Valley. Expressed in paintings and sculptures, it was highly symbolic and fascinating - this art form revolves round the past and was intended to keep history

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