A simple question about Egyptian Art (ASAP)?

Question: A simple question about Egyptian Art (ASAP)!?

Just wondering what the practice of Egyptian Art/Artists was!.
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Based on the question, I'm guessing you want the down and dirty answer!.
Egyptian art was highly stylized and created for both religious and burial purposes!. There were statuary, frescoes and murals that were painted on tomb walls, hieroglyphics that recorded lineages and historical events!. All in all, Egyptian art was state run and regulated until Akhenaton came to power and art had a renassaince where there was a brief period where people, including the pharoh were depicted in naturalistic and often unflattering ways!.
After his death the priests could not erase his name and likeness fast enough, so what we have today is very little!. Egyptian art returned to its over stylized and very limiting parameters until the Greek influence became powerful enough to create change in an otherwise static enviroment!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I don't quite understand what you are asking!. Can you clarify it a little!? Most of the art related to their devotion to many higher beings and to the leaders of Egyptian culture!. There were scribes who use Hieroglyphs to communicate, the sculptors that created art that paid homage to gods and Pharaohs, and sarcophagus for the upper-class!. I wasn't sure what you meant by "practice!."Www@QuestionHome@Com

Are you asking about the artists in the lower Nile Valley from 5000 BC to 300 BC!?

They used symbols!. Like animals!.
Its heiroglyphics!. They used bright colors!.
They were highly educated!.

The tombs and monuments emphasized life after death!. also much of their knowledge they inherited was saved-carved into rock!.

The style is called descriptive perspective!.
Figures were drawn to sizes based not on their distance from the painter's point of view but on relative importance!. For instance, the pharaoh would be drawn as the largest figure in a painting no matter where he was situated, and a greater god would be drawn larger than a lesser god!.
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Art_of_anci!.!.!.

This site should give a brief overview!.
There are several periods of art history for Egypt!.Www@QuestionHome@Com