I’m keeping this specific LOG not to share what I think or create, or whatever it is I’m doing on my blog, but to collect my findings in this journey through art (whatever that may be) I’m on in a structured manner. Writing this entry with it’s sentences filled with uncertainty and vague statements it becomes even more clear to me how much needed this is.
To start off I looked up the word ‘Fayum’ in Google, the first hit was this Wikipedia page.
I’ ve only heard this term a few hours before writing this post, what I know now is what I heard this evening and what I’m reading now. In short Fayum is a modern term for a type of realistic painted portraits on wooden boards attached to mummies from Roman Egypt (Funerary mask). They belong to the tradition of panel painting, one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world. In fact, the Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to have survived. (source Wikipedia)
1st LOG entry (Fayum)
I’m keeping this specific LOG not to share what I think or create, or whatever it is I’m doing on my blog, but to collect my findings in this journey through art (whatever that may be) I’m on in a structured manner. Writing this entry with it’s sentences filled with uncertainty and vague statements it becomes even more clear to me how much needed this is.
To start off I looked up the word ‘Fayum’ in Google, the first hit was this Wikipedia page.
I’ ve only heard this term a few hours before writing this post, what I know now is what I heard this evening and what I’m reading now. In short Fayum is a modern term for a type of realistic painted portraits on wooden boards attached to mummies from Roman Egypt (Funerary mask). They belong to the tradition of panel painting, one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world. In fact, the Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to have survived. (source Wikipedia)
That is all for now, here are some examples.