Ancient Greeks developed vases during the Bronze Age and used different techniques and materials to achieve a unique style. Some of the styles include the proto-geometric styles that applied during Greek Dark Ages. The style had arcs, triangles, wavy lines, and circles together with artistic expressions of jewelry, mural painting, and monumental architecture. Some of the Greeks that used this technique were from Corinth, Naxos, and Boeotia from Aegean. Greeks in the 8th centuries used geometric art that had the following attributes motifs and iconography in the Mycenaean period while in the Minoan periods the Greeks used abstract motifs characterized by black vanish. Greeks in this era used ornate complicated decorations where an artist leaves spaces to fill them with swastikas. At the end of the 8hy centuries, Greeks adopted the oriental style that imitated an artistic style from Asia Minor. The people from Eastern Mediterranean applied a highly stylized and recognizable form of art. The Neo-Hittites from Syria traveled to Greece and led to the expansion of motifs in Greek pottery since the sphinx, animal friezes, and griffin was introduced. Pro-Corinthian people embraced sub-geometric style together with silhouette incision on the pots. Corinth ceramics was highly influential in all over Greece since artists used realistic features while displaying some of the scenes of the period using geometric lines. In 480 B.C Greeks from Corinth started using bronze models to decorate the pots and superimposed stylized animals. The style spread to other cities such as Sparta, Athens, and Euboea. Animal motifs have a huge prominence on the Corinthian-black figurine in the late phase. Greeks from Athens invented the use of the red-figure technique in the 6yh century. Artists combined the black-figure from Corinth with the red-figure in their vases. The Archaic vase painters used a naturalist style to bring to an end of red-figure technique and the beginning of mannerisms. At the end of the 6th century, Greeks started using a rich style to reflect contemporary vase painting that has a great attention to detail and the use of hair and jewelry.
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"Making Greek Vases." YouTube. YouTube, n.d. Web. 1 Oct. 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhPW50r07L8>.
