This sculpture was created by an artist whose name is unknown. The name of the sculpture is called "Hatshepsut in a Devotional Attitude" which was created during the New Kingdom in ca. 1479-1458 B.C. The medium that was used to create this sculpture is granite and paint. This statue was one of a pair that stood on either....Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el-Bahri. The pose, with both hands open and resting on the front of the kilt, is a devotional....Middle Kingdom pharaoh Senwosret III who lived some three hundred years before Hatshepsut. I think the subject of this piece is to show how powerful Hatshepsut is as the ruler of Egypt. This paper will employ a close analysis of the Ancient Egyptian Art sculpture, "Hatshepsut in a Devotional
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I believe there is stable composition because the way that the sculpture was built makes it look like Hatshepsut is stable and appear powerful. There is movement in this piece because it shows that she is walking somewhere like to an important event. This piece is very organized in terms of how the sculpture was built to represent Hatshepsut. This piece is realistic in a way because Hatshepsut has a human-like face. Hatshepsut looks like she is walking somewhere maybe either to an event or meeting. The figure is active because you can see that her left foot is forward while her other foot is backward, also the sculpture conveys a mood of seriousness. The pose of this figure shows that Hatshepsut is a leader and even though pharaoh's are typically male; she definitely proves that women can be strong leaders just as a man could. In my opinion, the face of the figure looks more natural because it is more human-like than the rest of the body. The reason why I came to this conclusion because of the way the face looks more like a human, but as far as the scale of the parts of the object, everything else like the feet, hands, the headdress and skirt which are very
I believe there is stable composition because the way that the sculpture was built makes it look like Hatshepsut is stable and appear powerful. There is movement in this piece because it shows that she is walking somewhere like to an important event. This piece is very organized in terms of how the sculpture was built to represent Hatshepsut. This piece is realistic in a way because Hatshepsut has a human-like face. Hatshepsut looks like she is walking somewhere maybe either to an event or meeting. The figure is active because you can see that her left foot is forward while her other foot is backward, also the sculpture conveys a mood of seriousness. The pose of this figure shows that Hatshepsut is a leader and even though pharaoh's are typically male; she definitely proves that women can be strong leaders just as a man could. In my opinion, the face of the figure looks more natural because it is more human-like than the rest of the body. The reason why I came to this conclusion because of the way the face looks more like a human, but as far as the scale of the parts of the object, everything else like the feet, hands, the headdress and skirt which are very