The Importance Of Ideology In Egyptian Art

When shown in a realistic light, our insecurities, flaws, and shortcomings are shown to everyone around us. In result, there is a vulnerability and weakness that is felt. In order to keep such feelings away, people strive to achieve the unachievable, perfection. This is widely shown in Egyptian art. Egyptians, more so Egyptian rulers, wanted to show that there was no such thing as “flaws”. Without there being an existence of flaws, Egypt could be looked at as an almighty power. Thus, resulting in a nation full of intimidation; however, though ideology beats realism in the idea of perfection, realism still holds a natural beauty, literally speaking. In Egyptian art, when portraying an individual in a realistic way, it is known that that person

From this concept, the hierarchy of scale was produced. This scale was used to depict the importance of the individual in the work of art as opposed to others that were also present; however, Egyptians came to a conflict. Without them even realizing it, the rules found in their art became a contradiction. When portraying a ruler in the hierarchy of scale, perfection can not be achieved; therefore, the concept of ideology completely leaves that image. With this realization, perhaps the Egyptians saw that a flawed portrayal wasn’t so bad after

Typically, this individual can be seen on a grander scale as opposed to an average person in the art. This is called the hierarchy of scale. People that are on a large scale in the art are often dominant, of a higher power, or higher religious status. Ideology was formed to portray people of power in a ruling position; therefore, anyone seen in a realistic light was assumed to be of a lower class or a servant. However, as time progressed, realism started to be appreciated by

Egypt. Egyptians saw a natural beauty behind realism, so using this to represent someone of high class or low class was ideal; however, the further you go back in Egyptian history, one can see that art that was more on the realist side would represent someone of low class, meanwhile the idealistic human form was more so represented by royalty and leaders. With the beautiful portrayals of both idealistic and realistic bodies in Egyptian Art, it has influenced others cultures in doing the same idea. This can be shown in Roman and Greek art; however, Roman and Greek art used both a realistic and ideologic portrayals in their art. The broad stature of men showed