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Why was the eye painted only on one side in Egyptian paintings?
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When studying ancient cultures it is important to forget everything you know about modern ideas and concepts, which did not exist at the time.
Ancient Egyptian artists wanted to portray human beings and objects in a way that would make them instantly recognisable, so each element was drawn in a standard way. Faces are usually drawn in profile (from one side), but an eye seen from the side would have been difficult to understand, so the eye was drawn as if seen from the front. This is important because the same mixture of viewpoints carries on throughout each figure - the shoulders are seen frontally, but the arms and legs are seen from one side. This mix of viewpoints is blended into a single form, intended to convey the most lifelike aspects of each part.
A table would often be shown with its top in plan view (as if seen from above), and with the legs shown from one side.
These are called "conventions", the standard way of doing things, which would have been perfectly normal for Egyptian artists. Sometimes they broke away from convention, showing dancers or acrobats in unusual stances, or a very few faces from the front - when both eyes would be depicted.
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