The Pyramids Of Egypt

Kelly Styslowsky

Adam Weekly

Art History I

Response #4

November 27, 2017

During this semester, so far, we have discussed many different periods of cultures and arts in society and the history behind it. I feel that Egypt was one of many that interested me to talk about for a few reasons.

The backbone of Egypt was and still is, the Nile River, which through its annual floods, supported all life in that ancient land. The Nile River was the most important river because it had defined the cultures around the banks itself. The crops were also an important part of the Nile River because it got the rich soil that the Nile has brought to Egypt. As many people know in Egypt if the Nile River had never existed Egypt would not be there. It wouldn’t

The First pyramid is Imhotep, this was the first artist whose name recorded during the third Dynasty for King Djoser. The god-king’s pyramid resembles a series of stacked mastabas of diminishing size. This is one of the oldest stones structures that is built in Egypt and it had the final form of the first truly grandiose royal tomb. The Fourth Dynasty pyramids are the three pyramids of Gizeh. They took the shape of ben-ben, the emblem of the sun god. The sun rays were the ramp the Egyptian kings used to ascend the heavens to the heavens after their death and rebirth. By the end of the time pyramids came to an end their quality and the construction declined much more and as well as the powers of the

Sculptures were one of the most important things in the Egyptian world. They were important because they had a very important function in the tombs as substitute for the mummification. These were made out of wood, clay, and other different materials, but the majority of the statues were made of stone. Some examples that are in the textbook of the sculptures are Khafe, and the seated scribe. Khafe was an enthroned divine ruler with a perfect body. The pose he is making is of complete stillness which showed off the body, this sculpture was made out of the stone called diorite which is a dark stone, it was hard to get as they had brought it 400 miles from the Nile River. The Seated Scribe was characterized as the portrait of the Egyptian god-kings didn’t extend to the portrayal of non-elite individuals. He had signs that he was aging which is a sign that is inappropriate for an Egyptian to age they should stay nice and young looking like Khafre did but the seated scribe was different then him. He seemed to be more relaxed and not worried about what he looked like but how he lived his life. The painting I thought was the most interesting was Goats treading seed and cattle fording a canal because it was showing how they used the Nile River for the passage to the afterlife and how they were combined with stereotypical poses for the human and aminals with unconventional postures and such detail to the