Ancient Egyptian Art

Ancient Egyptian civilization and culture stood the test of time enduring thousand of years of life becoming a strong political, economic, and social structure.

. Egypt’s ability to withstand for thousands of years was possible because of their location. They were geographically located in the desert around the Nile River. Every year the Nile River would flood depositing silt that was rich in nutrients, which would provide crops for the Egyptians. Egyptians based their life off of the Nile River and a balancing system. There was balance between the red land and black land, night and day, Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. Even Egyptians art work had a balancing system to it. Over thousands of years of cultural dominance, the Egyptian art work changes very little. Without this balance the Egyptians were in chaos, and it was up to the Pharaoh to maintain the balance. In Egyptians favor, the desert land discouraged invasion from people located other territories and lands keeping Egypt pretty unknown to the world.

The art of ancient Egypt was both uniquely stylized and symbolic, even hieroglyphs were considered artwork to the Egyptians. They liked the form and structure of hieroglyphs and included it in reliefs and artwork. In the same way that hieroglyphs were a visual language to the Egyptians, the art of ancient Egypt followed specific rules in order to be read and understood. Instead of being concerned with realistic images like Ancient Greeks were, they followed a system called Canon of Proportions to represent the idea reality. The Canon of Proportions was a way that the Egyptians divided the body in sculptures and paintings, which consisted of eighteen equal squares. Another strict rule Egyptians followed when creating art ...

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...engaged in an worshiping offering. They are attentive in what is going on and the event that they are participating in. They sit a wait patiently. As for the Statuette of Isis and Horus, Isis, goddess is nurturing Horus and giving him life. She is showing her caring side and being connected with rebirth shows that if you live a great life you will be rebirth to greatness which Egyptians believed in wholeheartedly.

Isis being the god of rebirth was extremely important in the Egyptian mind set. The whole goal of an Egyptian was to be reborn again after they died. They went to great work to make sure they had all the items the would need in their afterlife. Isis was revered by the Egyptian people as the great mother-goddess and represents the maternal spirit in its most intimate form, and is caretaker over dutiful wife, grieving widow, and protector of the dead.