Black-figure

Examples of Black-figure in the following topics:

• Ceramics in the Greek Archaic Period

  • Instead of painting a figure with black slip and using a burin to scrape away the slip to create details, red-figure painting has the background painted black and the figures left the red color of the terra cotta.
  • One side depicted the scene in black-figure and the other side depicted the scene in red-figure.
  • Athenian Black-figure amphora.
  • Athenian black-figure volute krater.
  • Black-figure side of a bilingual amphora.

• Vase Painting in the Orientalizing Period

  • During the Orientalizing period in Corinth, human figures were rarely seen on vases.
  • This oriental black figure style originated in the city of Corinth, spread to Athens, and was exported throughout Greece.
  • The Corinthians developed the technique of black figure painting during this period.
  • Black figure pottery was carefully constructed and fired three different times to produce the unique red and black colors on each vase.
  • The black color came from a slip painted onto the vessel, after which incised lines were drawn on to outline and detail the figures.

• Etruscan Ceramics

  • The Etruscans are known for their production of impasto and bucchero pottery, as well as local versions of black- and red-figure vase painting.
  • After it is fired, its surface becomes black and glossy.
  • Initially, Etruscan vases followed examples of black-figure vase painting from Corinth and East Greece.
  • The black-figure style ended about 480 BCE.
  • In pseudo-red-figure painting, internal details were marked by incision, similar to the usual practice in black-figure vase painting, rather than painted on, as in true red-figure.

• Ceramics in the Greek Early Classical Period

  • The Classical period witnessed the continuation of red- and black-figure painting techniques on ceramic objects.
  • While artists continued to produce black-figure-paintings into the second century BCE, the technique became increasingly rare, overtaken about 520 BCE by red-figure painting.
  • Their main characteristic is that they maintained features of black-figure vase painting in the red-figure technique.
  • His unique style depicted figures, isolated from context, on a small ground line against a glossy black background.
  • Attic white-ground black-figure lekythos.

• Pentatonic Scales

  • You may be familiar with the scale in Figure 4.67 as the scale that is produced when you play all the "black keys" on a piano keyboard.
  • Listen to the black key pentatonic scale.
  • See if you can play your Figure 4.67 composition in a different key, for example, using the scale in Figure 4.68.
  • This is the pentatonic scale you get when you play the "black keys" on a piano.
  • This is simply a transposition of the scale in Figure 4.67.

• African American Migration

  • The Exodus of 1879 was the first general migration of blacks following the Civil War.
  • It was the first general migration of blacks following the Civil War.
  • One of the most important figures of the Exodus was Benjamin "Pap" Singleton.
  • Many blacks left the South with the belief that they were receiving free passage to Kansas only to be stranded in St.
  • Black churches in St.

• Ida B. Wells

  • She documented lynching in the United States, showing how it was used to control or punish blacks who competed with whites.
  • This discrimination made her more interested in the politics of race and improving the education of blacks.
  • Wells became a public figure in Memphis when she wrote a newspaper article for The Living Way, a black church weekly, about her treatment on the train.
  • After the lynching of her friends, Wells wrote in Free Speech and Headlight, urging blacks to leave Memphis.
  • She wrote an article that suggested that, unlike the myth that white women were sexually at risk of attacks by black men, most liaisons between black men and white women were consensual.

• Half Steps and Whole Steps

  • The intervals in Figure 4.8 look different on a staff; sometimes they are on the same line, sometimes not.
  • So a scale that goes up or down by half steps, a chromatic scale, plays all the notes on both the white and black keys of a piano.
  • You can count any number of whole steps or half steps between notes; just remember to count all sharp or flat notes (the black keys on a keyboard) as well as all the natural notes (the white keys) that are in between.

• The Black Death

  • The Black Death was an infamous pandemic of bubonic plague and one of the most devastating pandemics in human history.
  • The peak of the activity was during the Black Death.
  • The Black Death had a profound impact on art and literature.
  • It consists of the personified Death leading a row of dancing figures from all walks of life to the grave – typically with an emperor, king, pope, monk, youngster, beautiful girl, all in skeleton-state.
  • Evaluate the impact of the Black Death on European society in the Middle Ages

• The NAACP

  • At the beginning of the 1900s the conditions for people of color, and particularly Black people in the US were incredibly unequal.
  • This group of Black activists and scholars called for full civil liberties and an end to racial discrimination.
  • In 1909 the NAACP formed, the fist call for a meeting was send out by a group of white liberals appalled by the continued violence committed against Black people in the US .
  • During the great depression the NAACP moved to organizing around the disproportionate impact of the depression on Black workers, and worked with willing unions to help secure jobs.
  • Identify the key figures and groups working for racial equality in early twentieth-century America