Terms to use when describing vases

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Terms to use when describing vases
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Composition / Compositional Technique

• This Means where the painter has placed figures
  and other items in the scene

The following slides show aspects of composition
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Use of Space

• Are there blank spaces or has the entire vase
  been covered in pictures?

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Composition

• This is referring to where on the vase figures
  have been painted in relation to parts of the
  vase and other figures on the vases

• Discuss similarities in composition

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Composition

• Discuss similarities in composition (Side A and B)

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Triangular Composition
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Triangular Composition
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Linear / on a single plane
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Linear / on a single plane
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Overlapping

• Success in creating a three-dimensional scene,
  use of perspective and impression of depth How
  the painter show the distance between figures in
  a scene.

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Moods, emotions, gestures
Reaching out with palm up

• Head in hands

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Moods, emotions, gestures

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Movement
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Movement
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Movement
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Movement
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Movement
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Non-Figural Ornamentation
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Non-Figural Ornamentation
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Non-Figural Ornamentation

• Lotus and palmette

Tongues
Rays
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Depiction of the human figure / anatomy / pose /
foreshortening
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¾ Pose
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