700 bce and then adopted by pottery painters in attica where it would become the dominant decorative style from 625 bce and allow athens to dominate the mediterranean pottery market for the next 150 years.
Attic black figure technique.
550 bce when the great attic painters among them exekias and the amasis painter developed narrative scene decoration and perfected the black figure style.
The athenians who began to use the technique at the end of the 7th century bce retained the corinthian use of animal friezes for decoration until c.
The black figure technique was first applied in the middle of the 7th century bc during the period of proto attic vase painting.
Laconia was a third albeit minor producer of the style in the.
Influenced by pottery from corinth which offered the highest quality at the time attic vase painters switched to the new technology between about 635 bc and the end of the century.
Ancient greek black figure pottery named after the colour of the depictions on the pottery was first produced in corinth c.
The red figure technique was invented around 530 b c quite possibly by the potter andokides and his workshop.
In contrast the decorative motifs on red figure vases remained the color of the clay.
The background filled in with a slip turned black.
The red figure technique emerged around 591 b c.
Because it was much easier for artisans to draw figures in this way rather than delineate them with incisions as in the black figure technique red figure pottery became the predominant method in ancient greece until the late 3rd century.
Red figure quickly eclipsed black figure yet in the unique form of the panathanaic amphora black figure continued to be utilised well into the 4th century bc.