Saturday, January 19, 2008
Question #2, January 19 Egyptian
Examine Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt. Discuss Egyptian conventions of depicting people in paintings and relief sculptures. Include in your discussion the different angles of poses, the different handlings of Egyptians versus foreigners, and the significance of differences in scale.
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In Egyptian art, when the artist depicts the human body on a flat surface, they used different positions so that each part of the body was shown completely. Clearly, the scale of a person in Egyptian art represents the level of importance, the same can be said with ‘Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt’ the servants are dramatically smaller in size then the Pharaoh. In this relief, the Pharaoh is in an erect position while the servants are shown hunched over.
-Kelly S.
well egyptian art is all about ther life planted on the walls fat drawing showing and telling how they live and there way of life in dose times.it also shows the different from male and female by the color what there whering in the picture,shows also how is a pahraoh and how is a shavel...
There isn't much left to say, Kelly seemed to have nailed it. 'Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt' is filled with servants hunched over, in small sizes while the Pharaoh is much taller, and standing erect, showing dominance and worthyness over his servants.
erjoThough there is not much to say on the one individual peice of artwork of Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt. Another key factor in alot of paintings of egyptian history is the color. The color of the skin of a person detirmined weather or not that person was male or female, and could even depict the role, or station that person had in life.
Seth Wuertz
In ancient Egyptian paintings and art, the size of the character portrayed was directly related to the figure's stature. The poses were those that also embellished on the role of the figure. Ti is watching the event standing tall and erect while the other servants are shown arched, showing they are in motion, but also showing their servitude as workers, juxtaposed to Ti's towering sentinel-like view.
- Greg Allen
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