Simplicity

Portrait Head - Found in Giza

This is something that I have found while I was doing some research about the Ancient Egypt. What attracts me in this sculpture is that the sculptor was only concerned with the essentials. In a way, he was trying to portray death or was trying to represent the idea of a death person after life. These sculptures were put in a tomb and this one was actually found in Giza. In this portrait every detail is left out. Gombrich says "The observation of nature, and the regularity of the whole, are so eveny balanced that they impress us as being lifelike and yet remote and enduring."