21 - Red Figure A

Question 1

Andokides Painter

Answer 1

530-510/500. One of the first, if not the first, to use red-fig. The one who brings together red and black techniques in one vase, creating “bilingual” vases with “same” scene. Loves Heraclean motifs. Technique impeccable when it comes to ornament. Most consider him a pupil of Exekias - similar statuesque dignity.

Question 2

Psiax

Answer 2

520-500. Contemporary of Andokides. Well trained in black figure/did both, as well as bilingual. Likes wavy lines. Likes details and delicate extremities like hands and feet. Really crappy human anatomy in the red figure technique.

Question 3

The Pioneers

Answer 3

A group of artists that worked together/competed against one another. They pushed one another to explore. Euphronios

Question 4

Euphronios

Answer 4

520-500. Most important member of pioneers - painter and potter. Likes large vases, esp. kraters. Identifiable through super long eyelashes. Thick slip to create a relief-like rendering. Anatomical details impeccable. Most famous is the vase showing death of Sarpedon - transfer of body by personified sleep and death. Often uses incision when outlining the hair. Like Exekias, innovative composition and themes. Uses thin slip for anatomical details, but not as much as Euthymides.

Question 5

Smikros

Answer 5

510-500. Tries to be a Euphronios. Works hard on posture…this leads to very awkward placement of limbs. Triangular upper part with short lower bodies. More ambitious and masterful at depicting athletic satyrs. Together with Euphronios, the first to explore 1 fig on an entirely black vase. Not interested in tiny details.

Question 6

Euthymides

Answer 6

520-500. Frenemy of Euphronios. Muscular and sculptural figures created by ample use of thinned slip. Use of inscriptions. Heavier body than Euphronios; they occasionally break through the frame. Interested in exploring various postures. A more organic depiction of the eye/not as crazy about lashes.

Question 7

Sosias Painter

Answer 7

510-500. May belong to the Pioneers. Among first to experiment with placement of unusually large number of overlapping figures on vase. Like Euphronios and Exekias, interested in detailed patterns on dresses and armour. Eyes more realistic, with pupils forward.

Question 8

Oltos

Answer 8

525-500. Worked closely with at least 6 potters. Anatomical details are accurate, but never obsessive about rendering muscles. Figures have long slim feet. A long curving forehead line that ends in a pointed nose. Occasionally uses black figure, especially to decorate interiors of cups.

Question 9

Kleophrades Painter

Answer 9

510-475. Style is close to Euthymides’ - heavy, powerful, muscular figures. Themes are innovative - even social commentary through art. Trained in black figure too - contour of hair is incised. Eyes often in a brownish slip, nostrils as an elegant S. Occasionally, the lips of his figures are well defined. Often omits nipples.

Question 10

Berlin Painter

Answer 10

500-580. Figures are light, perfectly drawn, with relief lines for contours. Rather academic approach - no innovator. Impeccable technique with thin fluid lines. Hair lines are reserved and not incised. Likes depicting nipples as dot rosettes. Garments often with an Archaic gravity. Favorite type of composition is single figures on either side of vase.

Question 11

Brygos Painter

Answer 11

490-70. Style and technique are not innovative, but very interested in correct rendering of postures, poses, and age. Anticipating Classical vase painting in terms of characterization. Likes “squarish” heads of an almost Early Classical quality.

Question 12

Douris

Answer 12

500-460. Interested in almost every subject. Usually not too innovative, but occasionally depicts unique versions of well-known myths. In his long career, tendency from elaborateness to simplicity and back to the ornate.