Art on Pots
Lesson 11 Video #4
Greek Pottery
PREP NOTES FOR LESSON 11 Prepare the table for working in clay. In this lesson, you will read the text and then view Video #4 with your child, followed by the project.
Greek painters focused on the people of Greece and their activities. They painted people doing many of the same types of things that we enjoy today. Women play music. Men play physical sports, table games, and ride horses. Since the Greeks lived by the Mediterranean Sea, they were fond of drawing men in ships. They also painted the stories of the Greek gods and heroes that they worshiped and honored. Many scenes from these stories are found on pottery. The first pots showed black figures on
the red clay. This is now called the black-figure style. Since ancient artists often painted the men in red, the Greeks later reversed the figure and ground. They painted the background black and left the red clay to represent the figure. Their figures showed red skin instead of black. This is now called the red-figure style. A milky white paint was used to highlight parts of the paintings in both styles.
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