10:3 - notes from muffet jones intro to art class PDF

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Composite figure  Made up of different parts and different figures Egyptians  Dependent on the mile flooding  Wealthy country o Lots of trade  Upper Egypt is in the south  Lower Egypt in the north  East side of the Nile o Black land of the living  Fertile  West side o Dead Chronology  Predynastic  Old kingdom  1st intermediate period  Middle kingdom  2nd intermediate kingdom  New kingdom  3rd intermediate period Terms  Pharaoh  Dynasty

Palette  Ex o 2 dog palettes  Serpopard o Palette of narmor  Commemorative  Represents the unitive of Egypt

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Composite view o Frontal eye o Turned hips o Chest facing the viewer o Side profile of the head

mastaba  Tomb o For ppl with lots of money  Usually scribes, accountants, government workers, pharaohs o Had a sculpture for the spirit o Decorated walls  Represented things they enjoyed in their life, so they could still continue in the after after life o Sometimes gold artifacts  Imhotep o Architect o Created the mastaba of dozer during the 3rd dynasty of the new kingdom o Added steps  Ziggurats o Triangular pyramids  Pointed towards the sun and echoed the rays...