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The Greeks idealized humans, showing the strong and youthful depiction of men and women. The topics shown in their vases reflect the importance of strength, athletic competition, and battles. Their temples reflected their religious beliefs in the gods.
Egyptian art, however, was ritualized. Artwork had a set of very strict laws, which every artist had to learn from his earliest youth. Seated statues had to have their hands on their knees; men had to be painted with darker skin than women; the appearance of every Egyptian god was strictly laid down: Every facet of their art was directly related to deity.
That accounts for the differences in arcitecture, also. The Greeks built to human size, with an eye to the use of the building. The only oversize anything in Greek architecture was a temple. In Egyptian architecture, everything was oversized, it was a way of glorifying the Gods.....

2007-11-30 10:30:59 · answer #1 · answered by aidan402 6 · 2 0

Egyptian art depicts human figures in a stylized manner, almost always (in relief or painting) with the head in profile, the upper body facing the viewer, and the lower body in three-quarter view. Greek art represents the human figure as naturally as possible. (We can actually see the transition from the rather stylized Archaic art to the much more natural depiction in the Golden Age, all taking place in a few decades in the 5th century BC.) Egyptian art someeimes shows people with animals' heads; Greek never does, although it sometimes shows creatures with human upper bodies and animal lower bodies (e. g. centaurs and satyrs). Egyptian columns are fuller at the top than at the bottom; Greek ones (whether Ionic, Doric, or Corinthian) are narrowest at the top. The Egyptians used the arch; the Greeks did not, at least until it was introduced by the Romans.

2007-11-30 10:40:31 · answer #2 · answered by aida 7 · 2 0

in egyptian art the figures are stiff and not lifelike and in greek art there begins the idea of motion and the perfect and moderate form of the individual

2007-11-30 10:06:24 · answer #3 · answered by David V 4 · 1 0

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