Comparing Two Ancient and Powerful Art Forms.

  Ancient Egypt vs Ancient Greek

Ancient Egyptian Art is the various historic art forms of the lower Nile Valley from 5000 BC to 300 AD. It is widely recognized around the globe for it’s standardized postures and symbolism in painting sculpture and architect form. Most of the surviving art comes from ancient tombs and monuments and is preserved in museums and historic sites to preserve the beauty and the knowledge of the past. Ancient Egyptian art forms are generally characterized by their heavy use of symbolism, extreme care and detail in god and goddess pieces and their use of art to make the afterlife pleasant.

Another nationally popular and known art form is the art of ancient greece. The particular style has influenced and developed the culture of many other countries sculptures and architecture. This infamous art form inspired millions of European artists and into the 19th century dominated the art styles of the western world. As you can see, art form ancient greece art helped develop much of the art today by inspiring and influencing many artists across the globe, but now the question is, what makes greek art so powerful and widely recognized, what are it’s specific traits. Well ancient greek art is very detailed and anatomically accurate. Greek art consists is known for it’s beautiful architecture which has developed many historic cathedrals and buildings in greece and all over the world for that matter, and stone carvings and sculptures developing the concept and beauty of anatomically correct portraits. Polykleitos, a very famous greek sculptor exercised the concept of sculptures based on natural anatomy. A very famous piece of his that is an early example of classical ancient greek art is the “Spear-Bearer.”

Polykleitos's "Spear-Bearer"

When comparing ancient greece art forms to ancient Egypt’s we see two strong but very different forms of art. Egypt's art being very symbolistic, ritualistically powerful to all the people of egypt, and full of standardized poses expressing and portraying gods and goddesses. Whereas greek art is famous for it’s anatomically accurate sculptures, influence on the renaissance art culture and development, and very detailed and influential architecture that still sculpts most of the world leaving the mark of ancient greek. Ancient art forms and extremely important and commonly studied genres of art because of their astounding influence on modern day art and development of art forms, the powerful role art played in ancient greece and egypt at the time, and the inspiration it sparked in millions of people.