چکیده:
Throughout history, human beings have used different ways including arts to express their feelings and thoughts. Painting art has served different purposes. It has been used a medium to portray sacred things or to spend leisure time. Paintings can carry real and symbolic meanings. Sometimes they depict the reality in the environment, and sometimes they present unrealistic events or have a symbolic meaning. Color as the most important elements of the painting used in different ways to present a variety of concepts such as death, immortality. Ancient Egypt is one of the greatest and first civilizations of mankind from which many archaeological works and artworks have remained.
Purpose: Previous research has analyzed the symbolic meaning of colors in the ancient Egyptian paintings based on linguistics. So far no research has analyzed the symbolic meanings of colors and traced its origin in the real environment. This paper is an attempt to analyze symbolic meanings of colors in ancient Egyptian painting works.
Methodology
Due to the presence of the gods in the ancient Egyptian paintings throughout history, we have analyzed the colors in the image of the gods of ancient Egypt. To this purpose, after selecting the images of the gods, the most important recurring elements (objects) and the main colors in the paintings were examined. The meaning each of colors and their manifestation in the ancient Egyptian environment were analyzed. Finally, to support our analysis, we searched for the evidence to show how concepts are presented in the colors available in the paintings. As the death concept has received much attention from the ancient Egyptian people, the paintings portraying the mummification rituals, mourning and judgment were analyzed.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Feature Concepts symbolizing god color linguistics meaning the god's role in nature god A sun disc on her head the god of other deities: power red the sun Ra A head of a hawk living in the sky: supernaturalism blue A head of a jackal the god of mummies and the embalmers black death Anubis responsible for peoples' resurrection green A sun disk on the head, a head of a lion The wild god of war and violence red the powerful one war Sekhmet A Crooked cane The king of the afterlife red death Osiris white dress the god of the dead in white white thrasher Responsible for land’s fertility and peoples' resurrection green A big belly and woman's breasts Responsible for the annual flooding of the Nile blue The annual flood of the Nile Hapy elements that affect the lives of Egyptians, the sun, the desert, and gold are perceived as red.
Symbolic meanings Lexical meanings Stone god the manifestation of the color in nature color renascence, prosperity to prosper, to be fresh Turquoise11 Osiris, Sobek, Tanten plants and agriculture crops green power, victory, violence violence, victory Agate12 Ra, Sekhmet the sun, desert, gold red resurrection, holiness resurrection, to shine Osiris daylight white resurrection, death renascence Osiris, Anubis alluvium, night black immortality kings' bones the sun, gold yellow Sacredness and inundation of the Nile Azure Hapy, Ra, gods' hair the sky, the Nile blue Conclusion The ancient Egyptian tended to objectify all the phenomena, especially those natural forces which were influential in their lives."