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Black and Red Figure Vase Painting 600-late 500’s BC

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Page 1: Black and Red Figure Vase Painting 600-late 500’s BC

Black and Red Figure Vase Painting

600-late 500’s BC

Page 2: Black and Red Figure Vase Painting 600-late 500’s BC

Black Figure Vase Painting

• Common between 600’s-500’s BC.– Just after the Orientalizing period.

• Technique:– Silhouetted shapes were painted on a jar using a

liquid clay known as slip.– Details on these shapes were produced by incising or

scratching into the slip. – When fired, the image turned black, background

remained color of clay.• Images were realistically portrayed.

– Designs on pots based on pot’s function.

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Black Figure Vase Painting

• First art style to give rise to a significant number of identifiable artists (sign their work)– Exekias (500’s BC) famous black figure vase

painter.• Many of his works feature key moments in the lives

of the gods

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Black Figure Vase Painting

• Exekias: “Dionysus in a ship”, 530 BC– signed

(ΕΧΣΕΚΙΑΣ ΕΠΟΕΣΕ)

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Black Figure Vase Painting

• Group E (550–525)A large, self contained collection of artisans, considered to be the most important anonymous group producing black-figure Attic pottery.

Hoplitodromos: Race with armor

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Black Figure Vase Painting

• Focus on Mythological scenes

Wrestling of Peleus and Atalanta for the funerary games of king Pelias, 550 BC

Heracles kills the Nemean Lion, 560-540 BC

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Red Figure Vase Painting

• Began 530 BC in Athens– New experiment, paint slip on everything but the

figure.– Allowed one to paint in details rather than incising

them.– Replaced Black figure painting.– Name comes from reddish figures against black

background.– Largest produces: Attica, S. Italy– Attic red figure Vases exported to many areas.

• Produced in Athens: 40,000 specimens survive today.• S. Italy: more than 20,000 survive today.

– Some vases can be ascribed to an individual or school

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Red Figure Vase Painting

• Technique:– It is the reverse of black figure technique.– Paintings were applied to the shaped but unfired

vessels after they had dried to a leathery, near-brittle texture.

– The outlines of the intended figures were drawn either with a blunt scraper, leaving a slight groove

– The space between figures was filled with a glossy grey clay slip.

– The vases underwent triple-phase firing, during which the glossy clay reached its characteristic black or black-brown color

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Red Figure Vase Painting

• The invention of the technique normally is accredited to the Andokides Painter.

• The Pioneer Group: full exploitation of the possibilities of the red-figure technique. active between 520 and 500 BC – Figures appeared in new perspectives, such

as frontal or rear views – Foreshortening: used for “Perspective”

(depth)

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Red Figure Vase Painting

Warriors flanked by Hermes and Athena, Andokides Painter, 530 BC.

Athletes preparing for a competition, ascribed to Euphronios (Pioneer Group), 510-500 BC