Follow the link below to find out more about red and black figure Greek pottery. View the slideshow. During the firing process and if oxidation (smoke) occurs, the smoke can turn the unglazed portions of the pot black. Comment below with an original thought. Do not repeat ideas.
The site is from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/vase/hd_vase.htm
I really want to fire a pot like this! It amazing that they figured out that this works and could make small designs and details by firing the pots this way!
ReplyDeleteThese pots are beautiful! I love the little details on them and the two colors are pretty!
ReplyDeleteI really like the way these vases look! I like the way some of the dark pigments on the pots look like wood grain. it would be very neat to be able to fire a pot in three stages and see how it turns out!
ReplyDelete~Bailey Good
I love how all the pots are so detailed and even though they are all the same colors they are still so different.
ReplyDeleteJordan Fischer
This pots are really cool! I love the details in them, especially the ones with the horses.
ReplyDeleteYeah man those are cool mine could never look like that
ReplyDeleteI'm intrigued by the sophisticated design of the patterns and pictures. It's amazing to see what man could make by itself way back then.
ReplyDeleteGabby Lindau
I like how the pictures on the side of the pots can tell stories. They are functional but also entertaining
ReplyDelete-Jillian
It is interesting that each pot provides details of Athenian life. We can see how they lived through these pots.
ReplyDeleteI like how there are stories on the pots.
ReplyDeleteEmily Edwards
They kind of all have the same thing on them, but i like them, they are really cool
ReplyDeleteOlivia Boggess
this is a pretty cool way of designing the pot. it opens up a whole new door of opportunities! would is be smooth in the place where it was just smoked though? who knows!?
ReplyDeleteIt's incredible that the Greek had figured all of this out so long ago and were able to create these great pieces of art. I'm sure if they were to apply their minds to other things they could have progressed society much further but hey, arts fun.
ReplyDelete- Blake Hall
its crazy to think that these pots were made thousands of years ago and the firing process is so complex well not really now adays but for back then it was crazy and it really wasnt art back then they actually used the pots
ReplyDeleteI think it is so amazing how people are able to do this, until I took ceramics I really took for granted the pots and things in my house but know I've realized how difficult and the amount of time it takes to just make something small!
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