art exhibition
MK778
homework.docx
Image 1
Artist: Niobid Painter
Titles: Niobid Krater
Date: 470 to 450 BC
Medium and Size: Ceramic vase / 55cm
blurb:
I choose this image because it’s one of the famous forms of pottery in ancient Greek. Also, it depicts a rare story in Greek art. It is uncertain what is being depicted on side A as none of the figures is labeled so there are several hypotheses around that.
Image 2
Artist: Exekias
Titles: Dionysus cup
Date: 540-530 BC
Medium and Size: Ceramic \ Height: 12.3 cm (4 13/16 in.)
blurb:
this is considered one of the finest and most significant potter. It has two images outside and inside and a lot of suggestion for the interior image. Also, it shows numerous technical innovations.
Image 3
Artist: unknown
Titles: Dipylon Amphora
Date: 750 BC
Medium and Size: Ceramic \ H. 160cm
blurb:
this is one of the large Ancient Greek painted vase. The outer surface of the amphora bears horizontal bands of painted decoration in the Late Geometric style. Apparently, these vessels have a funerary use, perhaps as ossuaries.
Image 4
Artist: painter 20
Titles: Mycenaean Jug
Date: 1250-1225 BC
Medium and Size: Terracotta \ 16.6×17.3×13 cm
blurb:
Mycenaean pottery considered one of the influencer on classical Greece. Mycenaean wares typically display stylized representations of marine and plant life. he precise function of this jug is uncertain, the strainer spout suggests that it was designed for a liquid requiring filtering,
Image 5
Artist: Exekias
Titles: black-figure amphora (detail showing Ajax and Achilles playing a game
Date: c. 540-530 BCE.
Medium and Size: Ceramic \ Height: 55.5 cm; diameter: 34 cm
blurb:
this is decorated on both sides but in different painting techniques. One side has a scene depicted in the Red Figure style, and the other side shows the same scene in the Black Figure style. A lot of suggestion of why the artist depicted these heroes in this way. He also used the combined diagonals of their spears and their gaze to focus on the game board.
Image 6
Artist: Attributed to Malibu Painter
Titles: Olpe
Date: 625 B.C.
Medium and Size: Terracotta \ 32.8 × 17 cm
blurb:
A combination of floral and animal designs arranged in four registers decorates the body of this Corinthian black-figure olpe, or pitcher. the style was strongly influenced by the art of the ancient Near East.
