Why was drawing from the side look in Egyptian art? 1

In all the ancient Egyptian wall paintings, you will find pictures that show something from the front, whether it is a person, a bird, an animal, an insect or a reptile. Except for one bird, you can not see its face except from the front, which is the owl, because the degree of rotation of its neck is more than two hundred and seventy degrees, and it does not stop strikingly moving its head.

Before reading the relic, we must have a piece of very important information available: everything we see is primarily a priestly art, that is, purely religious. However, it expresses life, its syncretism and spirit. The ancient Egyptian language, hieroglyphs, are people, animals, birds, plants, insects, flowers and means. For their lives, they were able to express what they wanted to say, and that is the greatness of this civilization that dazzled and still dazzles the world.

Because of this, there was a tendency to limit the artist’s hand and even restrict it from a purely religious perspective. Things did photography in reality, not as seen by the artist’s eye or feeling. Rather, it was done according to the objective point to give the person or thing to be photographed an authentic look containing the largest of its main features. Failure to adhere to perspective was the predominant feature in photography, despite its necessity in art in general. This is not a failure to perceive as much as it represents the reality and system the Egyptian artist followed throughout the ancient Pharaonic, Ptolemaic or Roman eras. Perhaps this was intended to distort the zigzags, protrusions, shadows, and concealment required by the perspective, the basic features and characteristics of the object to be depicted.

It is also noticeable that they avoided the scenes that diminish, reduce or diminish, or conceal some things, or hide some people or show them behind each other, God, but not limited perceptions such as the campaign of the compound of God,

So photographing from the side was their favourite because the requirements of objectivity and not fascination is the dominant feature of this art. And photography from the side highlights the different parts of the body in their fullest appearances and sweetest characteristics.

So look at yourself in the picture of the ID card or to take the exam, as well as a picture you take of yourself from the side, and that was a selfie! You’ll see for yourself the difference.

The ancient Egyptian chose the parts and features that are more expressive of the body and have the greatest importance that allows them to more than others to express personalities, such as the head, the face itself, the mouth, the eye, the shoulders and the limbs, and this is what we will review later, continues.