La utilización de animaciones para imaginar el arte del antiguo Egipto en el marco del trabajo fin de máster

Laburpena

The figure in movement in the context of ancient Egyptian art has been the main topic of the master thesis that I developed under the supervision of Inmaculada Vivas Sainz. Given the fact that the figure in movement is an important challenge for artists of all times, interpreting in a naturalistic key the gestures in funerary scenes a challenge, having in mind given the concepts of immobility traditionally associated with Egyptian art. However, after analysing scenes and bibliography, we attested that the Egyptian artist expresses solemnity and tension within the framework of canonical rules, but also, a dynamism based on the functionality that the anatomical possibilities offer in the Egyptian body representation. To analyze this, we rely on a simple technological resource, the PowerPoint, which allows us, starting from a selection of gestures, elaborate a series of animated proposals that show complete sequences of movement. It is a simple didactic resource capable of demonstrating the linear continuity and the anatomical sense that the artist seems to use as stylistic strategies in the expression of movement. Besides, this research has been spread through a blog with links to the animated proposals which could be shown as QR codes.