my inspiration from egyptian culture

i am currently on my exam unit in art and textiles and my choosen topic for inspiration is egyptian culture while researching egyptian culture i have found alot of colourful and creative shapes and patterns.

I have found out that only pharaohs or rich people would be buried in a coffin or as it was called in those times a sarcophagus. Sarcophagus’ where very colourful; there colour palette would include red, blue, white, violet and a beige type colour.

These colours would be put in different shapes to create a magnificent pattern that would cover the whole sarcophagus, only the rich or royalty would be blessed with such a colourful sarcophagus.

 

Even thou rich people could afford sarcophagus’ they weren’t allowed to be as colourful as the pharaohs or it would count as treason and would be killed and put in a whole in the ground.

my chosen culture

after a few looking at days of at different cultures like chinese, hindu, african but i feel like i would enjoy doing the egyptian culture because of history of the pharoahs and ther beliefs.

 

for inspiration i will be using the pharoahs and the way they wrote and john gallianos 2004 spring collection inspired by his hot ballon trip to egypt.

some more pictures from john gallianos 2004 spring collection

 

 

 

 

John Galliano

which contemporary designer researched his latest collection while floating half-a-mile high in a hot-air balloon? The answer, of course, is John Galliano, whose Dior couture show was inspired by an aerial tour of Egypt that included the Valley of the Kings, Cairo, Aswan, and Luxor.

Beginning with Erin O’Connor, resplendent in a gold outfit with massively overblown cuffs, painted face, and a huge empress headdress, Galliano worked what he called “the sphinx line: elongated, tight, attenuated, but crossed with the elegance of Avedon and Penn.

The collection included leopard-print fur stoles with collars, billowing gowns of shadow-dyed organza, with hems twisted and folded into lotus flower shapes, and pyramid-shaped gowns made of dozens of golden mirrors, and printed with hieroglyphics, or the glamorous mummies paraded in bandages of black silk tulle flashing with rainbow sequins. Many wore Nefertiti-like crowns, or long Egyptian "goatees". The models wore breast-plates of turquoise, coral, silver and gold, and earrings the size of "eagles' eggs". All models were outfitted in corsets. The models wore carved and polished wood masks, of Tutenkhamun, or gods like Horus, a falcon, Bast, a cat, or Anubis, a jackal. The masks were made by London milliner Stephen Jones.

The collection was one of Galliano's most celebrated collections for Dior.

 

 

when i look at john gallianos work from 2004 i feel inspired by how he has created such and eye carching collection with just one trip to egypt.

Georgina Von Eztsdorf design house

Georgina Von Etzdorf design house was made by three friends, Jonathon Docherty, Martin simcock and Georgina Von Etzdorf  her self

 

 

 







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inspriation for my final piece

i found that these pictures can help with my inspirations.



i feel these pictures go with the coliur scheme that i would do for my egyptian culture

Cultural Influences, Egytian culture

this week i have been giving my second task todo in Textile design and i had the option of five options

1) Leaves,Roots and Branches

2) cultural Influences

3) Illuminated Manuscripts

4) Decorative Textiles

5) Binding, Wrapping and Knotting

looking threw these options i have come to the conclusion that it would be best for me to do Cultural Influences because there is so many things i could do and theres no limit to my ideas.

while looking threw many Cultures i cam across the Egyptian culture.

 

I love the idea of  hieroglyphics, if i do egyptian for my final piece i would make sure that hieroglyphics would be involved in some way.

 

This is the great pharaoh tutankhamun he was the most famous youngest pgaraoh to take the throne of egypt at nine years old, if i did egypt for my culture influnce i would use the head piece that is put on the dead pharoahsof egypt.

this dog headed man is Anubis he is the protector/god of the underworld. it was Anubis' to protect the pharaohs tomb which is full of treasure, there would be two statues of anubis at the entrance of the tomb to stop unwanted thieves and gravediggers. if i did egypt culture for my cultural influence i would use the story of anubis the prtector of the tombs to pece into my final piece.

Ruth Harries

In 2006 Ruth was awarded the title of 'Welsh Artist of the Year'. Statement - These works are part of an ongoing series, which consider aspects of my Welsh ‘Identity’ and the use of the Welsh language through the generations of my family.

 

 

 

 

They draw from personal responses to motherhood; my relationship with my daughter and our initial experiences and emotions to her attending school; our learning a new language and everyday life

 

 

In classroom pieces, I consider the demise of the blackboard and once again enjoy and celebrate the quality of the layered mark- making of the chalk lines; their repeated erasure and defined re-emergence, like the language itself. The diverse qualities of mark- making produced by painting, drawing and writing are all here considered in stitch.

I find Ruth Harries' work very intersting because i find it on a constant level of youth, yet i find it dark and dull which is what a childhood should not be.
If I ever met Ruth Harries I would like to ask her what she was thinking and feeling at the time of creating these pieces.