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White-ground technique is a style of white ancient Greek pottery and the painting in which figures appear on a white background. It developed in the region of Attica , dated to about 500 BC. It was especially associated with vases made for ritual and funerary use, if only because the painted surface was more fragile than in the other main ...
Visit to a tomb on a white-ground lekythos by the Reed Painter. The Reed Painter (fl. 420s–410s BC) is an anonymous Greek vase painter of white-ground lekythoi, a type of vessel for containing oil often left as grave offerings.
A version of Rubin's vase. The Rubin vase (sometimes known as Rubin's vase, the Rubin face or the figure–ground vase) is a famous example of ambiguous or bi-stable (i.e., reversing) two-dimensional forms developed around 1915 by the Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin.
His red-figure vases nearly always have a sober beauty, but few of them–like the pointed amphora in the Cabinet des Médailles–reach the height of his best white lekythoi, which are among the masterpieces of ancient drawing. [3] In 1962, Greece issued a stamp featuring the decoration of an Achilles Painter white-ground lekythos. [4]
The northern part of Arizona will not have a white Christmas. Desert Southwest: There will not be a white Christmas. Pacific Northwest: There will not be a white Christmas. Pacific Southwest ...
One example of a white-ground lekythos by the Thanatos Painter is a vase in the Art Walters Museum (440–430 BCE). [3] The women are mourning over a deceased family member. There is a male figure approaching from the right side of the lekythos that is unseen by the women. He is a representation of the deceased family member. [3]
What is a white Christmas? It need not snow Dec. 25 to fit the weather service's definition of a white Christmas: There just needs to be at least 1 inch of snow on the ground.
Consider which traditions you want to keep and which ones can be dropped, Degges-White said. “Sometimes we have to make really tough decisions due to the limited supply of time, energy (and ...