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Geometric Art (900-700 BCE)
q Krater (mixing bowl) that served as a grave marker.
q This vessel marks a significant turning point: q Human figure is reintroduced. q The art of storytelling was revived
(pictorial record of funerary rituals). q Divided into registers. q Geometric shapes used to represent
human figures. q There is no attempt to represent depth,
space or three-dimensions.
Orientalizing Art (700-600 BCE)
¤ Began in Corinth (port city).
¤ Trade with foreign cultures from the Near East and Egypt inspired new artistic conventions and new motifs.
¤ More open compositions built around large motifs that included real and imaginary animals, abstract plant forms, and human figures.
¤ Corinthians invented black-figure painting, a new ceramic technique.
Archaic Art (600-480 BCE)
¤ Francois Vase named for the excavator.
¤ Black-figure technique.
¤ Painter and potter sign their work.
¤ 200 figures in 6 registers.
¤ Selective encyclopedia of Greek mythology.
Archaic Art (600-480 BCE)
¤ Acknowledged master of the black-figure technique was an Athenian named Exekias.
¤ Figures placed in a single large framed panel.
¤ Eyes stare out from the profile heads in the old manner.