The aesthetic values in ancient Egyptian stretchers as a source of creativity contemporary printing formulations

Document Type : Original Article

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Art Education Department, Faculty of Specific Education, Assiut University, Egypt

Abstract

Peoples in the modern era are trying to find ways to defend their cultural identity, to preserve their privacy, and this responsibility rests with everyone, governments, peoples, intellectuals and artists. It is imperative for the person in general and the artist in particular to preserve his personality through His works in terms of the subject matter and the choice of the elements and techniques used to produce these works of art. Therefore, this research came to deal with the impact of the Egyptian identity as a source for the creativity of print paintings inspired by ancient Egyptian scrolls. The study began with an introduction on the importance of highlighting the Egyptian identity through art in light of technological development, through a descriptive study of selections from ancient Egyptian mushafs. The ancient (travel literature in Pharaonic Egypt) from the pre-dynastic era until the end of the modern state, in order to get acquainted with the plastic values of it, along with identifying the general features of ancient Egyptian art according to the different schools of art at the time, which are represented in idealism, realism, and the school in which it was mixed The two together, and the Atunian school), which these schools continued to exist throughout the various ancient Egyptian civilizations.

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