Art and Religion in Ancient Egyptian Society

Ancient Egyptian’s lives were surrounded by art. The Invention of Art is a part of them up to this day. Other than Architecture, Painting was one of the major arts the Egyptians made. Artists were a big part of the society.

The invention of Ancient Egyptian art was one of Egypt’s biggest accomplishments. Art for the Egyptians were very important because most of the art they made were for their religion. Art was made mostly for their religion because they would paint pictures from the after- life or build exceptional pyramids that had to do with their religion. Art today was different from art back then. Back then art was made onto cave walls and gave direction or meant a special thing. For example, when they wanted to capture an animal, they

Like today paintings in Ancient Egypt were found everywhere, but as time passed by paintings meant different things1 that made it harder for us to identify what some of the art they did meant. To remember the important people, the Ancient Egyptians painted portraits so their presence will always be with them even though they have passed away. Most of the time the Ancient Egyptians would exaggerate paintings that cause the paintings to be inaccurate and unrealistic.2 Before the Artist can start painting they had to go through a special process, the process was quite simple; a square grid paper covered in red paint was prepared. They did this so that they can make sure that the proportions were aligned. Now days we don’t use grid paper covered in red paint, the artists uses a ruler. These days we see all the great paintings located inside museums. Back then the great paintings were mural paintings (wall paintings) and these mural paintings were found in the walls leading toward tombs. Usually the paintings that were painted were what that person’s life was before entering the after-life. The paint the Ancient Egyptians used was from nature, it was a natural source, white was from Gypsum or Calcium carbonate, Red was from Ochre or Iron oxide, blue was from copper or Lapis Lazuli, green was from copper chloride compound and glues were made from egg white. Ancient Egypt’s painting was very symbolic