The art forms of Ancient Egypt included painting, sculpture, pottery, papyrus, architecture and hieroglyphs. Painting and sculpture reached high levels as both were highly stylized and symbolic. Paintings were produced by applying mineral pigments on plaster or stone surfaces, then sealed with varnish. Sculptures adhered to standardized human proportions. Small sculptures of vessels and amulets were carved from steatite. Pottery was also made and placed in tombs. Writing was done using papyrus, though it is fragile. Architecture used bricks, sandstone, limestone and granite, with ramps to help in construction. Hieroglyphs were the writing system with over 700 symbols, later decoded

1. Egyptian Art
The art form in Ancient Egyptian include painting, sculpture, pottery and papyrus. In Ancient Egyptian art there
are also architecture and hieroglyphs. Those art produce during the civilization of Ancient Egyptian n the lower
Nile Valley from about 1000 BC to 100 AD. Both painting and sculpture have reached a high level in Ancient
Egyptian because both of the art product were highly stylized and symbolic.
For painting, All the reliefs in Egyptian were not paint. The lesser prestigious product in tombs, temples and
palaces were just painted on a flat surface. The stone surfaces were prepared by whitewash. A layer of coarse
mud plaster with a smoother gesso layer is cover above a rough stone surface. To withstand strong sunlight
without fading, pigments were mostly mineral. A layer of varnish or resin was usually apply on the paint as a
protective coating.
The monumental sculpture of Egyptian is world-famous, but refined and delicate small works exist in much
greater numbers. The Egyptians used the distinctive technique of sunk relief, which is well suited to very bright
sunlight. The main figures in reliefs adhere to the same figure convention as in painting, with parted legs (where
not seated) and head shown from the side, but the torso from the front, and a standard set of proportions making
up the figure, using 18 "fists" to go from the ground to the hair-line on the forehead.
Steatite were used in Egyptian to carve small pieces of vases, amulets, images and deities of animals and others.
Artists in Egyptian also found out the enamel that can cover pottery and this also applied to some stone works.
There are different variety of pottery item were deposited in tombs of the dead. Interior parts of body which
were removed before embalming were represented by some pottery.
Writing and painting in Ancient Egyptian was using papyrus. Papyrus is relatively fragile, it can last for a
century or two and it can last longer if buried in the very dry condition of Egypt. All the Egyptian life include
literary, religious, historical and administrative documents was recorded using papyrus texts.
Sun-dried and kiln-baked bricks, fine sandstone, limestone and granite was used by the Architects of Ancient
Egyptian. They planned their work carefully. Ramps were used for workmen to move up as the height of the
construction grew during the creating of pyramid.
The writing system of Egyptian is Hieroglyphs. Jean-Francios Champollion is the first decoded for hieroglyphs
from the Rosetta Stone in 1799. There are more than 700 symbols in hieroglyphs.