Examining Ancient Egyptian Art

For quite some time now I have taken great liking into Ancient Egyptian artwork and history. The Ancient Egyptian once a powerful civilization left behind thousands of ancient enriched artifacts. Religion played a significant role Ancient Egyptian artwork and had a huge influence civilization. The vast majority of Ancient Egypt artwork illustrates images of Gods, Goddesses, and Rulers known as Pharaohs that’s the Egyptians believed heavenly. They played close attention to balance, proportions and rich details. Ancient Egyptian creations are deliberated from the notion of order. If a person were to closely examine Egyptian art it would be clear to see that they used vibrant and meek shapes shared with simple figures and smooth spaces

Egyptian Art expresses how the once great civilization viewed their religious philosophies. Their artwork praises nature in all its forms. Nonetheless the focal emphasis was on their Gods, Goddesses, and the Pharaoh, whom they considered to be their living God. Spiritual memorials always were enormously designed to generate an impression of shock and admiration of the buildings. The conviction in eternal life is which is what most of their art is based on. Examining Egyptian art one could not help but notice that normal ceramics was all but plain and basic, in compared to the Greeks who produced real works of art. The reason being is because the Egyptians believed in life after death which is way they frugally lived. Their art manifestation, building types were built to last, but irrelevant things such as houses were built from mud

Symbolism, extending from the Pharaoh's regalia which denoted his command in upholding order, to the distinct symbols of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses, which was ever-present in Egyptian art. Symbolism was very important in explaining their religion “through symbols the Egyptians sought to represent many of their religious beliefs and ideas of the nature of the cosmos” (Wilkinson, 11). Animals were typically similarly extremely figurative members in Egyptian art. Color, also was very important, colors had unique meanings, blue and green embodied the Nile and life; yellow which symbolized the sun god, and red signified power and liveliness. Cats played a major role in the Egyptian household, they chased away rat, mice and snakes (Wilkinson, 63). Egyptian artwork often display cats underneath the chair of a tomb owner, by doing this artist wants to point out the fact that cats were often the favorite pets of the house (Wilkinson, 63). It is also believed that cats in the New Kingdom where “scared to the sun God and it protects the sun from the serpent in the Book of the Dead” (Wilkinson, 63). The colors in Egyptian relics have endured exceedingly well over the centuries due to Egypt's dry