Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1891-07-11
eeYpr AND 1ER ARTS.
Faints ffasn . Lecture by Mrs Amelia n.
Edwards. the Eminent Egsptsiogiss.

Paints tfnsn Lecture by Mrs Amelia u.
Edwards. ihs Eminent tgsptoiogtsl.
Ii was a large and cultured audience
which was gathered IN Chickering hall
recently 10 hear Miss Amelia B Edwards
critic, autis9ress and lecturer. deliver the
first Of a series of lectures ON Egypt
and her arts They expected much and
we're mot Disappointed. the address being
choice and instructive entertainment
Miss Edwards is prv-cminentiy an I'm.
glishwonian refined. intellectual, trav.
eled aud wcll read The principal points
~ the lecture follow;
We wonid naturallt suppose the arts
II sculpture and painting, which have
eune .lawn - ,is from the ancient Egyp
tians. to b. twins, hut painting and draw
uig, lis predecessor. are lncomparabiy
older, as atclent as Egypt civilization,
almost a. ald as man himself Drawing
j. the earliest arr the world possessed.
and We pass at onre from the most an.
cieut traces to the Egyptian draughts.
man We cannot measure the time
which elapsed het ween the two We
cannot guess how long it took the prin-
itlse Egyptian 10 work up FROM his orig
inal barharism 10 the time when we first
hear OF hiu. for even then he was Tin.
ished scientist and mathematician, and
had "A wide knowledge OF arts and Iilera-
tnre. II is with his skill as draughis-
man and IA a painter that We are con
cerned
The earliest Egyptian paintings are at
temple Of 1enebra, an the Nile. and ante.
date the birth of Chris, by 5000 years
They are contelnpuraneous with the
building OF the great pyramids. Their
popularity is that the heads and legs are
4 represented in profile, while the bodies
AMI ewes are full front Having no idea
OF perspective the feet ~ the figures we're
drawn upon the same plane. Still The
actual picture i not So preposterous as
the description would seem; the lines are
drawn with such freedom and graceful
ness tllat we forget the delormiiy In
roloring. the men We're painted deep
brown and the women yellow
The features and dress also received a
conventional representation The ancient
Egyptian WAS not "A painter, hut an iliu-
mInatar Tie couid MOI depict the widow
weeping lt the side of the mummy of her
husband nor Pharaoh staying his thou
sands. hnl IN tl,s representation Of race
characteristics and indiN iduals, alien
types aud alien costumes. tie was iniinit-
nhe The nation j. prevalent that the
Egyptian artist took more liberties with
the human iarn divine than any either.
but il il not the case The early artists
ia all times and mail nation. begin in the
same way. and make precisely the same
errors. Nothing IN Egypt has heen dis
covered - ludler0msly feeble AS the draw
inI un the proto ilomeric vases of Greece.
contemporary with the time of Rameses
\ I'LL It even which periul true Egyptian
art Mas III tts drcadrnee.
/ Here werr displayed a number Of pho
T tagraFiis direct from The original, by
! meatis nf i powerful rterenpticon. Miss
i IiNarls pointing nnt their salient char.
i acieri@tieV the contrast between tka
farig Greek pictures aud the finished
! I-A plmn, Aaa indeed lau. .hable, but IL
Was noticed that tile former developed,
i Willie Tile latter. having arrived at Ger
i tain polnt of perfection, remained al n
stanastill, Continuing. the lecturer said
AfH7 tAifsshS iAttllttI tIbiti tiN E4GN I1llAifS.
but al lensah the Egyptians adopted the
progressive Greeian ideas. When the
/ huge labsfinfh near Helispolis was de.
/ ztrafed hy thu Roman government. a
i portion Of ila site was made use OF as a
/ place OF burial BY an extensive Grseco.
/ Egyptian colony. Here the new art came
! into being. perhaps a variation of rolling
i the hanaage4 over the face of the mummy
i suggested H.
! Faces aud heads were painted full face
+ with light and shade To give the sem
+ blanee of relief. The material was gen.
sralls wax LAID on panels OF cedar " ood.
/ The eoIors We're applied in powder form
/ 70 the surface OF the soft wax by seed
i brush. The result was an immense step
i forward.
/ BY means of the stereopticon a series
Of specimens of this latter portraiture
found in recent excavations were pro-
jeetel on the screen The faces were
exceedingly interesting, the drawing, ex-
i preston and light and shade effects be
/ ing excellent. The faces. particularly
those of the women, bore an exceeding.
Il modern look. aud were complete to the
most minute detail. ~ Boston Advertiser.