Artful crafts: the influence of metalwork on Athenian painted pottery
- 1 November 1985
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Hellenic Studies
- Vol. 105, 108-128
- https://doi.org/10.2307/631525
Abstract
Why did Athenian vase-painters choose the colours they did for the vases they decorated? Why did they choose black figures on red, or red figures on black; why were lekythoi often decorated on white ground? These are basic questions, but have rarely been asked. Many books and articles deal with the technical aspects of how these effects were achieved, but never seem to ask why. A few minutes' conversation with a modern potter will dispel any illusion that the colours so familiar from Attic pottery were the only ones compatible with the local clay. Even the orange of that clay was made more intense by the addition of a thin reddish slip, and white-ground can scarcely be accidental. It is legitimate to enquire why a particular range of colour schemes was adopted.Keywords
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