The fine art of ancient Egypt could not do without the use of clean and bright colors. Reliefs and sculptures, architectural structures, walls - everything was painted festively and "ringing".
Fine Art of Ancient Egypt,developing, increased the interest of artists to animals, landscape, plants, reproduction of any domestic scenes. With the strengthening of a realistic human image in the images of the Pharaoh and his relatives, a pronounced similarity of the portrait with the original appeared.
Paints were used by the Egyptians mineral.White paint was extracted from limestone, black - from soot, green - from grated malachite, red - from red ocher, yellow - from yellow ocher. To obtain blue paint used copper, cobalt, grated lapis lazuli.
The coloring on the walls in the temple of Queen Hatshepsut has been preserved to this day.
The fine art of ancient Egypt wassurprisingly permeated with life rhythm. Particularly noteworthy scenes from everyday life. The Egyptians depicted real events without inventing anything.
Ancient Egyptian artists possessed uniquethe ability to convey the beauty of nature and life, using a mathematical calculation and trembling of your heart. Sculptors, architects, artists of this ancient country were distinguished by a holistic view of the surrounding world and the most subtle sense of harmony. All this reflected the art of Egypt. Painters sought to express their skills in each individual work, along with this, striving for synthesis - creating a single architectural ensemble.
In the period from 30 to 24 century BCthe fine art of ancient Egypt is distinguished by restraint and calm clarity. This is clearly seen, for example, in the images in the tomb in Medum. Painting the walls, the ancient Egyptian artists used the technique on a dry surface.
В 21-18 вв. до н.э.painters are trying to overcome the established compositional schemes. In the painting that adorns the walls of temples and tombs, the majestic friezes are replaced by more freely grouped scenes, and the colors used are becoming more transparent and tender. Painting is performed by tempera technology (mixed dry powder paints) over dry ground. In this case, the artists apply the thick, then a slight overlap of color, some contours can be seen very sharply, and some - barely perceptible. This allows you to give a kind of lightness still flat silhouette. The hunting scene on the banks of the Nile is considered one of the most remarkable murals created in this era.
The first and most important sources narratingabout music is ancient Egyptian texts. This evidence, of course, adjoins the image of scenes of music playing, the musicians themselves, their instruments.
Throughout the existence of the state, all religious rites were accompanied by music. In this case, the duties of the priests included singing, playing the lute and harp.
Fine Art and Music of the AncientEgypt is closely related to each other. In assessing these areas of culture, a certain contradiction attracts attention. With a sufficiently large number of musicians depicted, which indicates a fairly wide distribution of music among various strata of society, there is almost no evidence of musical notation. According to researchers, this is due to a certain prohibition. However, some records related to the music system were found in the texts of the New and Middle Kingdoms.
The study of ancient papyrus, bas-reliefs of tombs and other sources testifies to the great importance of painting and musical art in the cultural, ritual life of the ancient Egyptian people.
