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Black and Red Figure Vase Painting

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.

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Black and Red Figure Vase Painting

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

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  4. Black Figure Vase Painting • Exekias: “Dionysus in a ship”, 530 BC • signed (ΕΧΣΕΚΙΑΣ ΕΠΟΕΣΕ)

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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)

  10. 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

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