The Egyptian Art appeared presumably in 3000 B.C. Having achieved the apogee, the egyptians preserved the level of knowledge and practice. Contrary to the art of the subsequent generations, the Egyptian Art was not a sort of religious observation, worship to the Gods or a illustration of the mythology. The Egyptian Art is fundamentally realistic. Its main purpose is to serve to those percepting the Art and to get its message over to the people. We could also consider the Art as a sort of rite, in a manner that the Art was a sort of a tool for the people devoted to it. The Art was entirely destined to express theocratic symbolysm.

Discovering the Egyptian Art and comparing its 3000 years of existence to some centuries of the European Art, may fill you with fullness and serenity, feelings experienced so rarely.

 According to the common belief, Egypt is a country of the Pyramids and rocks, breaking the line of horizon and contorting you out of reality. Whatever mysterious could they seem from the distance, they keep their history to discover.

The technical aspect of the Egyptian Art brings out how a well-structured civilization could mobilize the whole nation to act for the one common aim. In the history of the mankind this achievement remains unsurpassed (The Great Wall of China, the monuments of Inca, ... ) marking the rich and poweful civilizations.

The unshakable belief of the Egyptians in the visible and invisible worlds, material and immaterial prompted them to create the means destined to help the late person at his way to the other world. It explains why they carved the heads of their Pharaohs out of such eternal material as granite. The egyptian word for “sculptor” was ‘who-preserve-life’ (the rite of the open the mouth). Originally this rite was a privilege only of the Pharaohs, but later the nobility enjoyed it too, for their tombs were grouped near the tomb of the Pharaoh.

One can presume that the majority of the frescos were inspired by the “The Book of the Dead” implying the basic idea that psychostasy was the crucial moment determining what would become of the soul.

The Egyptian Art was never a sort of common, popular art, since it was worked out and destined for the dead, esoteric, since only the esoteric were able to apprehend the symbolism of the hieroglyphs. The language of the hieroglyphs was adsolutely codified so that no one could interpret the message but the craftsman. It is a rite predetermined to help the dead pass through a certain number of doors, it contained the keys, it showed the way, but it did not explain on what the final destination of the dead depended.

The Egyptian Art had some very strict rules, and every artist was to learn them ; geometry and harmony of the proportions are omnipresent. For example, the angles of all the load-bearing walls, the sitting statues were to have their hands on their knees, the men were to be depicted with darker colours than the women,  the image of every Egyptian God was strictly defined: Horus, the lord of the sky was to be pictured as a falcon or with the head of a falcon; Anubis, the God of the afterworld was to be depicted as a jackal or to have a head of a jackal, etc... Every artist was to learn the Art of beauty too. The aim of the Art is to materialize the predicted rite, but not to express your outlook. The work of Art is to be appreciated from the point of view of the artist’s ability to restore things accurately. Long and  laborious years of apprenticeship let the artist master the rules defining harmony, beauty, truth. It can also explain why the Egyptian Art was able to survive during 3000 years.