This past Friday night, I went to the De Young Museum to visit the King Tut exhibit. It was pretty awesome as the De Young Museum hosts these Friday night events until 8:45 p.m. with free food, music, concerts, and crafts. I thought I ought to visit the King Tut exhibit to not only fulfill my Design 1 requirement but to embrace myself in this cultural experience.
Since picture-taking was not allowed in the exhibit, I will post pictures from the internet that I remember that was in the exhibit.
If you look at the picture above, that's actually not the real coffin King Tut's body was in. In fact, it's a little small coffin that stored his organs. Probably about a little taller than my MacBook. What's really interesting is how you can just zoom in and take a picture of the head and easily mistaken it as a huge artifact. This little small coffin is embossed totally in gold with beautiful minerals and stones adorned as decorations. It's very impressive to see that the face does show realistic human features. Something very different from the hieroglyphics and pictures on the walls in ancient Egypt. If you look below... there's an example:
The Ancient Egyptians were great artists in sculpting 3D and drawing 2D. Their usage of color were very versatile. Bright, vibrant colors to decorate their items and gold was something they could not leave out.
From reading the McCloud book, the Ancient Egyptians purposely made their 2D drawings look like cartoons from the side, yet they made realistic human features on their sculptures. It's just very ironic on how different yet similar their 2D and 3D artwork are.
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