Assignment #2

Greek and Egypt are well known regions, where have established an advanced civilization for a long time. Therefore, two countries were high developed in art. Art works are very valuable to understand each of the countries culture, because particular qualities of each country’s art indicate well characteristics of their culture.

                                                        

Ancient Egyptian’s arts have several distinctive qualities of their art. To define the qualities of the art in three parts is religious, symbolic, and geometrical. Egyptians were highly focused on their religion because they considered afterlife is important. Therefore, Egyptian arts were influenced by the belief about afterlife. Another defining quality of Egyptian arts is symbolism. They represented often symbolically about their God, kings and queens. Moreover, their arts are geometricized. Therefore, most of their art works are perfectly balanced. The “statue of the Goddess Sakhmet”shows well those quantities of Egyptian art. This statue is 210cm in height and about 50cm in width. It is made by Granodiorite, which is a kind of stone. The statue has lion head in human form, and it is sitting in the chair. The lioness head symbolizes the goddess Sakhmet, who is represented the force of violence and unexpected disaster. Her lion head represents well the symbol of her characters such as danger and potential of violence. Furthermore, it has geometrically same and balanced right and left side except that she is holding something on her hand.

The Greek focuses on the importance of individual. Furthermore, human potential and achievement was considered very significant value in the period of time. Therefore, the Greek pursuits the perfection of naturalistic images of the human figure in art. The Greek honored individual achievement by creating numerous life-size nude mal and clothed female figures. “Marble statue of a woman” is one of clothed female figure Greek sculptures. It is 180cm in height and made by stone. This sculpture is very elaborate and detailed. Therefore, the drapery of the cloth and the face is well represented the naturalistic human figure.