Gabs+EE



Gabs first rough draft

=== This is good so far. However, make sure that you provide adequate images to exemplify both the Ethiopian artworks and the European/Italian/Byzantine works that typify external influences and key features borrowed by the Ethiopian artists from outside of Ethiopia. ===

=== Do you offer adequate consideration of Ethiopian artforms prior to contact with these external influences? Is there evidence suggesting that the Ethiopian artists in some way included their own local/indigenous style with pre-Christian origins, to these Christian religious icons? ===

=== You make some mention of the relative isolation from the outside world of Ethiopian population centres. What can you say specifically about the possibility of Ethiopian artists making permanent, non-transportable paintings and artworks when the climate and to reign of much of sub-Saharan Africa required inhabitants to adopt a more nomadic lifestyle. ===

=== Is there evidence suggesting links between access to specific materials ( for example: the raw materials of paint-pigment, binders etc) and the success and enduring legacy of Ethiopian/Byzantine painting? ===

I make some suggestions about refining your research question in the Morganized version :


** Gabs' next draft prior to morganization.... **

==** You might also consider adding something to the RQ to discuss whether, as it initially appears, the Byzantine influence was restrictive and prevented further growth, or how Ethiopian artists managed to subtly adapt and change the style, images and iconography over time. You make many eloquent and fascinating references to how indigenous Ethiopian gestures, artefacts, habits and ideas are blended into what might seem at first glance to be very traditional Byzantine works. **==

[[file:To what extent has Byzantine Art endured as the primary influence upon Ethiopian religious iconographyMORGANIZED 2.docx]]
= = =** Morganized v2.0! **=

= **OK: Gabs got his next draft in a day early so gets his feedback early too (what a star!) :** =



= One major question that this nearly complete draft raised for me was 'whilst the Byzantine style was restrictive in many ways, did its development/practice enable Ethiopian artists to include/illustrate aspects of their own culture ? (even in coded or subtle ways?) =