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1 By Monica Rigucci and Megan Greenberg
Ancient Greek Pottery By Monica Rigucci and Megan Greenberg

2 How Pottery Was Made Shape the terra-cotta clay on a pottery wheel.
Prepare the slip for decoration. Fire the vessels. Decorate and add color.

3 How Pottery Was Decorated
Pottery Was decorated in two basic styles, the “red figure” method and the “black figure” method.

4 The “Red Figure” method
The “Red Figure” method is a style of decorating pottery. Figurines in the clay were outlined and the background was filled in with black paint.

5 The “Black Figure” method
The “Black figure” method is a style of decorating pottery. The figures in the clay were painted in a black silhouette and the reddish background was aloud to show.

6 Why Pottery Was Made Greeks Loved Beauty
Vessels for carrying water, wine, olive oil, and more. Depicted historical events. Brought wealth to Greece.

7 History Of Pottery Started when terra-cotta clay was found.
Sixth century B.C. potters were famous for their decorations on pottery such as geometric patterns, floral patterns, men fighting, people driving a chariot, scenes captured from nature, or imaginary wild animals. Pottery was developed on Greek islands and the southern part of the mainland thousands of years ago. Today, terra-cotta pottery is sold in street stalls throughout Greece.

8 Bibliography Yeoh Hong, Nam. "Arts." Greece. Countries of the World. Gareth Stevens, Facts For Learning. Facts On File News Services. 24 Apr < First Fun Encyclopedia, 2003, p52, 1p Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia 4/24/07 First Painted Vases Middle Search Plus 4/24/07 Ancient Greek Pottery- Crafty painting- PDF Full Text A Civilization Project Book-Ancient Greece Copyright: 1982 By Susan Purdy and Cass R. Sandak Pages used: 6 and 7

9 Bibliography (continued)
Clothes and Crafts in Ancient Greece Copyright date: 1998 By Philip Steele Pages used: 12 and 13 Facts for Learning Greece- arts Writing Implements Middle Search Plus What Life Was Like

10 The End

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