The art of ancient Egyptian painting

The art of ancient Egyptian painting The proverbs of Amun say, "Egypt is the place where the great waters irrigate, and it is an Egyptian who dwells there and drinks its waters." Egypt is the gift of the Nile. Bordered by the Arabian Desert to the east, barren mountains to the south, the Sahara to the west, and the Mediterranean to the north, it is a complete and enclosed oasis. Every June, when flamingos fly over this narrow valley, the Nile begins to flood, and by November the flood is gone, leaving behind a layer of fertile soil. This land was farmed seven thousand years ago. Egypt caused by the Nile two terrain, namely Cairo for the border into the north and south two: the south called upper Egypt, the north called lower Egypt. Around 3200 BC, the rule of Egypt was divided between two Kings. They competed for power again and again. The result was that Lower Egypt condescended to the throne, and Egypt was unified into an early dynasty, from which Egyptian civilization was gradually formed. From the Third dynasty came the Old Kingdom, then the Middle Kingdom, then foreign usurpation, 18 dynasties were brought together to form a new kingdom, Alexander finally conquered Egypt in 332 BC. After Egypt entered the slavery society, the king (Pharaoh) was the supreme leader of the slave class, and also the incarnation of the Sun God and the Nile God. They are Kings of the earth while they live, and rulers of the underworld after they die. The religious belief of the Egyptians was that after death the soul simply left the body and floated in the universe, and if it returned to the body it could be resurrected. The king was a king in the underworld, but he wanted to enjoy all the happiness in the world. So he thought of painting all the things in the world on the wall of the tomb for enjoyment. In this way, the Egyptian art of painting was developed. Ancient Egyptian painting There are three styles of Egyptian painting. One is called "line carving", which is to carve the images of people or animals on the stone. These images are flat shapes, similar to painting shapes, which are actually a style of art between sculpture and painting. Another style is hieroglyphics. This hieroglyphics originally used a symbol to represent a physical object, and each symbol was a separate painting. Although later, hieroglyphs grew into the message, but always maintained a pictographic symbols, we now see them and the image of birds, lions and other animals and plants by real and vividly drawn, match the picture or relief on the background of the play a similar to the traditional Chinese painting "inscription" role, at the same time also on the image play a decorative role. It can be seen that ancient Egyptians also regarded calligraphy as an art. The third style of painting in ancient Egypt is the tomb wall painting, which is the most important form of painting in ancient Egypt.