550 bce when the great attic painters among them exekias and the amasis painter developed narrative scene decoration and perfected the black figure style.
Attic black figure technique.
Figures are further enhanced with glaze lines or a brush.
The athenians who began to use the technique at the end of the 7th century bce retained the corinthian use of animal friezes for decoration until c.
The background filled in with a slip turned black.
Influenced by pottery from corinth which offered the highest quality at the time attic vase painters switched to the new technology between about 635 bc and the end of the century.
Laconia was a third albeit minor producer of the style in the.
The red figure technique emerged around 591 b c.
Figures could be articulated with glaze lines or dilute washes of glaze applied with a brush.
Red figure quickly eclipsed black figure yet in the unique form of the panathanaic amphora black figure continued to be utilised well into the 4th century bc.
Ancient greek black figure pottery named after the colour of the depictions on the pottery was first produced in corinth c.
The black figure technique was first applied in the middle of the 7th century bc during the period of proto attic vase painting.
700 bce and then adopted by pottery painters in attica where it would become the dominant decorative style from 625 bce and allow athens to dominate the mediterranean pottery market for the next 150 years.
In contrast the decorative motifs on red figure vases remained the color of the clay.