It is interesting to see that people have always tried to identify themselves with some type of visual aid. When looking at this picture I will identify it with the egyptian culture, even if I don't know anything about it. In today's society people show their pride of where they are from by a flag or a visual that identifies that country. Generations before used sculptures, architecture and ect. to identify the region they were living in or whom it belonged to. For example the egyptians used Funerary mask of Tutankhamun to identify the ruler who at the time was Tutankhamun. In the United States today, we see that every state has their own flag that identifies that region. People are usually familiar with that flag and can tell where that flag is from.
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Very intersetin perspective on how we as individual cultures identify ourselves through art. Your picture of the American flag struck me since I was previously in the army. The funerary mask of the Egyptians also relate to the funerary rights of fallen soldiers. At the funerals of military personnel we cover the casket in the flag and then give it to that persons family as a token of remebrance. In life and death cultural representations are always seem to play a role.
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