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Early egyptian art

Egyptian art has a very distinctive style and overall layout. The most important figures are always the largest and often the most apparent, which are often represented by gods or kings. The artists of that era carefully followed artistic trends and commonly practiced strategies in representing humans, gods, and animals that made the figures disproportional.

There is often a noticeable difference in the way humans and gods dress and the

jewelry that is worn. In this particular piece, the humans appear to be humbled in the

presence of the gods and they come bearing gifts of an isstrum and two blossoms of blue

lotus. The poses of everyone in the piece is such that it is seen in almost every other Egyptian piece. The feet are facing forward while their bodies are turned so the viewer can see their chest. The faces of all the figures are in a profile view, yet the eyes are on the side of the figures head as in a frontal portrait. If a photograph was to be taken of this scene, the people would be in a more relaxed, natural pose. In terms of how the figures are portrayed in the painting, nothing flows with anything else too well. It seems like it was more important to tell the story and get the point across through painting rather than writing what happened.

The king is the most obvious character in this piece because everyone in the painting is focusing and looking at him. He is also the tallest in the piece. Even while sitting in a chair he is signifagently taller than everyone else. The queen, Nakht, and Tjuiu are all relatively the same height as opposed the taller king. In reality it would be a difficult thing to do to coincidentally find a king as tall as this one and find his subjects and his queen to be shorter. The mountain in the background is not in proportion with what a mountain should be as it is not too much taller than the people in the piece. This mountain would tower over everyone in reality, but to tell the story and get the point across, certain sacrifices had to be made.

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