ancient egyptians, they built pyramids. period.

Pictographs = ACE design element.

Cobalt blue + turquoise blue + gold = AMAZING colour combination.

Fake beards look good on Queens.

Christ, what a racist art academy, skipping Egyptians to go straight to Greeks.

well, it had more to do with the limit amount of time we have for art history. we had to do the whole lot till 19th century romanticism in 1 year, so I can imagine there had to do be some ommisions.

I think their "discrinating" if you would call it that (I certainly would) depended on if that specific period achieved anything that had concequences on the next 'grebt' period in art history.

off course it is all a matter of 'the classics"

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The hell? I take it you're not even covering "primitive" art, either?

the hell? no we didn't

I think they say "you should study art history at university then"

in art school history lessons are only a small portion of the program at least here in Holland.

it's bad I think

It can't be racist Kate, because I've seen all the films about ancient Egypt, and it was run by white people, usually Liz Taylor, and the only black people in Egypt were slaves. (I'd better do some sort of < / bitter irony > thing here, just in case.)

Lots of the maths we credit to the Greeks came from Egypt, or through Egypt - lots of important stuff traces back to deeper Africa. Artistically, I wouldn't devote so much time to the Greeks, though their hypostyle halls are worth noting. (Better would be hippo-style, obv.)

egyptians had quite an advanced medical system, using herbs that are still in use today, and their belief in hygiene as a health 'must' was way ahead of other cultures.
but this isnt really relevent to an art class. :-(

People obsessed with "the classics" tend to completely ignore everything else. I have a book on world architecture that's just like that class described above. The only things mentioned in the Egyptian section were things that the Greeks used. If it didn't lead directly to a greek style, it didn't exist. KMT, ancient Egypt, lasted for 3000 years, and obviously went through a lot of different periods. They had their "impressionist" period, and their super-realist periods.

It annoys the hell out of me that nearly all my Art/Architecture of the World books have chapters like 'American Modernism' or '19th Century France' or 'Baroque Churches' and then 'The Far East' or something, as if several thousand years of culture in China, Japan, Korea, etc., are about as important and interesting as a good century in one Western country.

This is partly because I'm hugely interested in Oriental arts, admittedly, but I still object to this attitude to everywhere outside Europe and (on modern stuff) America. How is the Far East worth less coverage than Europe, say, on artistic matters, in anything purporting to be on World Art?

I bet art history books in the far east are the other way around.

Does anyone know how they cover European and American art?

(We had the History of Art by Honour and Fleming as our bible)

You may well be right, Dakatine, but that doesn't affect my point. Actually, I would be a bit surprised if they were as poor at covering Europe as we are at covering South-East Asia, but maybe they are. I expect it varies a lot between the quite westernised (in some ways) Japan and an isolationist nation like North Korea, say.

The egyptians invented the spreadsheet! I have a photo of the earliest recorded spreadsheet which i snappen in Karnak (I think). It wasn't one of those "pop quiz" one's either -- it was real numbers and everything.

The mummy tomb, which has been sealed for 2500 years, has been opened for the first time. pic.twitter.com/KWGT95girv

— Psychedelic Art (@VisuallySt) October 5, 2020

couldn't see is there was any forbidden sarcophagus juice. Even though it is pretty creepy I'm still more troubled by the recent youtube memory of an 84 year old can of creamed corn being opened.