The combination
of geometric regularity and keen observation of nature is characteristic
of all ancient Egyptian art. Paintings that decorated the walls of the tombs
in Egypt were intended to keep alive the history. The pictures and models
found in Egyptian tombs were connected with the idea of providing the soul
with helpmates in the other world. These wall-paintings provide in extraordinarily
vivid picture of life as it was lived in Egypt thousands of years ago. 
And
yet, looking at the art for the first time, may find rather look strange.
What mattered most was not prettiness but completeness. It was the artists'
task to preserve everything as clearly and permanently as possible. So they
did not set out to sketch nature as it appeared to them from any fortuitous
angle. They drew from memory, according to strict rules which ensured that
everything that had to go into the picture would stand out in perfect clarity.
Everything had to be represented from its most characteristic angle. Egyptian
art in all the statues, paintings and architectural forms seem to fall into
place as if they obeyed one law. No one wanted anything different, no one
asked him to be 'original'. On the contrary, he was probably considered
the best artist who could make his artistic work most like the admired monuments
of the past. Everything that was considered good and beautiful in the age
of the pyramids was held to be just as excellent a thousand years later,
the mode of representing man and nature remained essentially the same through
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