Ancient Egyptian statues of artistic characteristics

Ancient Egyptian sculpture exists mainly as an architectural appendage, its program in the ancient kingdom has been formed and inherited, mainly expressed as: upright posture, arms close to the torso, frontal straight to the audience; focus on the depiction of the character's head, the other parts of the carving of the more abbreviated; realistic facial outlines, solemn expression; according to the character of the status of the high and low to determine the proportion of the size of the statue coloring, the eyes are often inlaid crystal, quartz, and other things. The eyes are often inlaid with crystal, quartz and other things.

Famous works include: The Sphinx (Pyramid of Hafra), one of Egypt's largest and oldest outdoor sculpture giant statue, the body length of about 57 meters, the face is up to 5 meters long, for the pharaoh's face. Prince Rahotep and his Wife (Seated), with its soft and stretched lines, expresses the character traits of the prince as well as the dignity and beauty of the prince's consort. The statue retains its original coloring, and the figure's eyes are made of ebony. Other famous works include "Menkaura and His Wife", "Kaye the Clerk", "Statue of the Village Headman" (actually a statue of Prince Kapal), and so on.

Reliefs, paintings:

Ancient Egyptian reliefs and paintings have **** the same program: frontal law (the figure's head to the front side of the performance, eyes, shoulders for the front, below the waist for the front side); horizontal banded arrangement of the structure of the horizontal line dividing the picture; according to the characters of inferiority and superiority of the arrangement of proportionality and size and composition of the position; the picture is full of blanks; a fixed program of color: the man's skin is brown, the woman's skin is light brown or brown. brown for men, light brown or yellowish for women, blue-black hair and black eye circles.

The masterpieces of relief sculpture in the period of the Old Kingdom are: "Namir Tablet" and "Hippopotamus Hunt".

Tomb murals from the Ancient Kingdom: not much remains, the masterpiece is "Flock of Geese", painted in a realistic way, with vivid images and harmonious and moving colors.