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Aesthetic Orientation Of Women Image In Ancient Egyptian Art And Its Reason

Posted on:2011-01-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X L SuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360305481067Subject:World History
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Ancient Egyptian has the oldest and most splendid civilizations in the world, its unique artistic style and superb artistic level is admired by now. Ancient Egyptian art demonstrated their understanding of the universe, thinking of life. It provides intuitive material for us to explore this mysterious country. When we mentioned ancient Egyptian civilization, perhaps it is the majestic Great Pyramid, the silent sphinx in the yellow sand which will come into our brain. Of course, there will be glamorous head sculpture of queen Nefertiti. Images of women is an important factor in ancient Egyptian art, which aesthetic orientation is determined by social, economic, religious, Primitive thought , male aesthetic perspective, the positive law and other factors. It will help us to understand the aesthetic consciousness and ways of thinking of the ancient Egyptians to study the aesthetic orientation of images of women,, have a more profound understanding and grasp of Egyptian art.The research object is the women images of the ancient Egyptian art in this paper. The author analyzed the female aesthetic orientation of the ancient Egyptians in aesthetic view, and discusses the reasons for their formation. The paper is divided into the following three parts:The first part is the introduction, which mainly introduced research overview and results of domestic and foreign scholars on ancient Egyptian artistic images of women, as well as innovation and features of this article.The second part is the main content of this paper. The author appreciate and analyses ancient Egyptian artwork from the collocation of clothing and decoration, women's body shape, spatial layout and color orientation by aesthetic theory. In appreciation of Egyptian artwork ,we can conclude that Egyptian pursue natural beauty on clothing material , pursue harmony on the collocation of clothing and decoration, pursue sensual of female body, pursue layer on spatial layout, pursue brilliant on color. This part of the paper use a large number of images to discuss the aesthetic orientation of women image in ancient Egyptian art .The third part is the analytic part. It demonstrates the reasons for the formation of the aesthetic orientation of the women images in ancient Egyptian art from the socio-economic, religious culture, original thinking, male aesthetic perspective and a positive law, demonstrating the aesthetic orientation of ancient Egyptian women is the result of many factors. The reason why the women images of ancient Egyptian artistic pursue nature beauty, harmony beauty, sensual beauty, layer beauty, and brillaint beauty is based on the ancient Egyptian society. In ancient Egypt, women were respected and have more independent economic status. Worship of goddess in Egyptian religion is also affect the Aesthetic Orientation of Women Images in Ancient Egyptian Art. In addition, the ancient Egyptian's way of thinking is primitive original, non-blocking factors and Infiltration Law make the ancient Egyptian art showing a relatively immature aspects. Finally, the male aesthetic perspective and evolution in the rules of ancient Egyptian art directly determine the formation of the unique style image of women in ancient Egyptian art.The forth part is the concluding part of this article, to abstract and the whole article.
Keywords/Search Tags:Art of ancient Egypt images of women, aesthetic orientation, reason
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