Art Reflection

Egyptian art is different to our everyday art in looks and use of. Today we make art to appreciate it and for it to be hung up in various places for enjoyment. But not in ancient egypt! In ancient Egypt it was made for a very different purpose! Mostly to all the time it would be religious reasons. It would be either to show the importance of gods, what the gods gave, afterlife and nature (what gods gave), mummification and others. In my art work it was about the passing of the afterlife and the weighing of the heart which determines if the individual can go through or not. Most of these "art works" were made on walls of tombs, temples palaces. The showing of time is also different, today we don't really have different time periods happening in a drawing, most of the time it is a single moment. But in Egypt the drawings have different things happening so they have "windows" like in comics to show different things happening. The most important is always the biggest, the most important individual is a bit bigger than others and great detail is put in saying that individual is the important one. I have learned that there striking differences and close to no similarities surprisingly beside the religious use.