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Forums / Art Talk / Visual Arts Talk / why did Egyptian painters concentrate on conceptual reality rather than presenting optical reality?
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Power2Frogs
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#22081 2007-09-08 00:05 GMT |
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Puppie
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#22082 2007-09-08 00:16 GMT |
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? There are stacks of optically correct representations (particularly portraiture) in the museums of Egypt.
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CarpetShark
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#22083 2007-09-08 00:18 GMT |
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much easier to paint on the walls!
besides, helped in consistency of style, esp if there are several people painting, and not all them them are great artists. oh of course easier to assign symbols to concepts/objects too |
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vevrca
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#22084 2007-09-08 07:44 GMT |
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well the first is a lot easier then the second.They had a lot better things to do.
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VividCat
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#22085 2007-09-09 05:22 GMT |
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Primarily because Egyptian "art" was not art for arts sake, but rather had a societal function related to religion and magic. Thus, while the Egyptians were capable of presenting what you call optical reality, and did so on occasion, their "art" was a symbolic system with a clear canon (set of rules). The way your question is phrased gives you a clue to this - it is the *concepts* that were being conveyed that were important not so much the "reality."
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