Attic Style Greek Art
The bold use of color raised relief areas and gilding on this vase is typical of the kerch style of athenian red figure vase painting named for an area on the black sea coast where many of these vases were found.
Attic style greek art. During the greek dark age spanning the 11th to 8th centuries bc the prevalent early style was that of the protogeometric art predominantly utilizing circular and wavy decorative patterns. Black figure pottery painting also known as the black figure style or black figure ceramic greek μελανόμορφα melanomorpha is one of the styles of painting on antique greek vases. Geometric style krater with funeral scenes geometric style krater from attica greece with funeral scenes 8th century bce. From the 2nd century the neo attic or neo classical style is seen by different scholars as either a reaction to baroque excesses returning to a version of classical style or as a continuation of the traditional style for cult statues.
540 bc now in the munich state collection of antiquities. Development of grecian painting. The pelike was a favorite shape for athenian vase painters of the 300s b c. The exploits of heracles perseus and other heroes were painted often on large vases used as burial containers.
700 625 bc the new style is called proto attic and includes for the first time scenes referring unambiguously to greece s heroic past. Classical attic may refer either to the varieties of attic greek spoken and written in greek majuscule in the 5th and 4th centuries bc classical era attic or to the hellenistic and roman era standardized attic greek mainly on the language of attic orators and written in greek uncial. With both techniques the potter first shaped the vessel on a wheel. Between the beginning of the sixth and the end of the fourth century b c black and red figure techniques were used in athens to decorate fine pottery while simpler undecorated wares fulfilled everyday household purposes.
This was succeeded in mainland greece the aegean anatolia and italy by the style of pottery known as geometric art which employed neat rows of geometric shapes. Attic black figure komast cup painter of copenhagen 103 greek 9 7 26 1 cm 3 13 16 10 1 4 in 79 ae 128 open content images tend to be large in file size. The pots made at this time were the earliest in greek art to show narrative scenes from popular myths particularly those about heracles. Attic replaces the ionic σσ with ττ.
The bodies of men and animals were depicted in silhouette though their heads. Style of painting on ancient greek vases.