What is Ancient Egyptian art? Timespan (3000 BC - AD 300) and
purpose (to obtain eternity) Modern writers usually use 'Ancient
Egyptian art' to refer to the canonical 2D and 3D art developed
in Egypt from 3000 BC and used until the third century AD.
Together with the hieroglyphic script, Egyptian art was designed
to obtain for creation an eternal and harmonious existence.
Therefore it is not interested in partial views of objects. The
perspectival art developed in Europe may seem ‘natural’ to us,
because we tend to see the world with the eyes of the camera,
principally today the TV and video camera. We can easily forget
that perspective is another symbolic system with its own
communicative and performative functions, to record and
commemorate. Egyptian canonical art had a different function,
which has nothing to do with re-presenting reality. Rather, it
had to create and project into eternity a version of reality out
of which all evil had been meticulously edited. Aspects and
proportions In order to achieve t