Ancient Greek pottery

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Ancient Greek pottery

• Studio in Ceramics

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Based on these shapes, what do you think some of
the functions/purpose of Ancient Greek Pottery
were? Record your answers under the
Purposes Column.
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Black Figure Pottery 620 - 480 BCE
What do you know about Ancient Greek
culture/society? What questions do you have
about this piece of pottery? Black Figure
Pottery Facts -Red clay-terra cotta -Black
figures and patterns made from black Glaze -Line
designs incised afterwards
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Design -Functional-handles -Narrative located
in a band -Figures drawn in motion and to Fit
in the space available in the Band -Decorative
repeating patterns -symmetry -Some of the
pottery was made Using a potters wheel, some
was Made by hand construction, for example, With
slabs
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Red Figure Pottery530 380 BCE
Red Figure Pottery Facts -Red terra cotta
clay -Black linear designs and Backgrounds
painted on later -This approach allowed for
more Refined detail
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One of these images is from an older time period
than the other. Which do you think is
older? What were some of the visual clues that
helped you choose?
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Project Guidelines

• Create a vase that is made out of a slab
• Add a lip that turns either in or out
• Vase does not need to be round. You can alter the
  shape with a paddle
• Incising two figure drawings.
• Figure Drawings will show a figure in motion

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