The Art Of Ancient Egypt

The Ancient Egypt, located in North Africa and on the banks of the Nile River, is one of the first great civilizations of humanity, they managed to develop impressively politically, lo religious, social and military, in the same way they did in art, leaving a great artistic legacy full of knowledge, stories and pieces of beauty and value incalculable.
The egyptian art It had a utilitarian purpose, since it was destined for the dead; For 4,000 years the egyptian art did not change, except for the short period of time in which the pharaoh Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) and his wife Nefertiti ruled who was Semitic (belief in a single god) so that during that time the religious beliefs only fell on a single deity, in Aten god of the Sun.
Religion was a fundamental part of Egyptian culture, it had such an importance that it is reflected in its art, they had their own gods and the Pharaoh was not only the political, social and military leader, but he was also considered a living divinity, a son of god.

The Egyptians sought to create lasting and useful works, they created art for eternity, aesthetics were taken for granted.
The impressive Egyptian architecture that lasts to this day, is part of the artistic legacy that this town left; the most famous architectural creation of the Ancient Egypt They are its triangular pyramids: Cheops, Khafre and Menkaure, which are made up of mastabas (mounds of earth) carved out of the mountains and one mastaba was placed on top of the other; the position of the pyramids is related to astronomy, another field in which the Egyptians excelled; the monumentality of its constructions is due to the belief of achieving transcendence through them. The religious temples of Ancient Egypt were of utmost importance to their people and were characterized by giving the entire building the name of the capital or column used, for example: the Jatorica column that represented the figure of the goddess Jatos or the column of Katón. The civil architecture of Ancient Egypt It consists of the palaces, which had a transitory character due to the importance of eternal life, which is why the tombs were of greater interest. Egyptian architecture used basically 4 types of columns: Palmiform, which resembled a palm; lotiform representing a lotus flower; Campaniform, bell-shaped and Papyrus resembling the shape of a papyrus.
The most outstanding characteristic of Egyptian sculpture is that it was hieratic, that is, without movement and was governed by the law of frontality, broad shoulders and arms close to the body; the most common statuary forms were of pharaohs and gods that could be represented as deities with the body of animals such as the lion, the serpent and the vulture; the size of the statue depended on the hierarchy of the person represented and it was always intended to capture its essence; To distinguish the Egyptian sculpture in its different periods, the costumes, makeup and hairstyle are taken into account.
Egyptian painting mainly represented the human figure always placing the face and feet in profile, the eye and torso facing the front; the skin color used in the men's figures was darker than that of the women; Deities represented in figures of crocodiles, cats, bulls, beetles, etc., were also painted. pictorial art it was used more frequently in tombs or burial chambers.