The
domination of
the
Attic ceramic begins to settle toward the end of the seventh
century B.C. supplanting the Corinthian production. The Attic
vases of that period,
and up to about 560 BC.are painted in the black-figure technique:
the silhouettes are
drawn in black on a clay orange background and details are given
by incisions, with added purple or white. The favorite
painters themes are moments from the poems on the Trojan War,
religious,
mythological and combat scenes, but also scenes of everyday life: women
in
gynaeceum or at the fountain, banquets and life in the palaestra. The
red-figure style appears in Athens circa 530-520 B.C. The technique
consists of a reverse black-figure : the background is painted in
black, figures having the color of
the clay, details are painted rather than incised.
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