Swing painter
The Swing Painter (English: Swing Painter ) was a provisional names designated Attic vase painter of the black-figure style v of the third quarter of the 6th century. Chr.
The Swing Painter was about the same time as the Group E active. An unusually large number of vases by him are known, which is partly due to the fact that his style is quite easy to recognize compared to other vase painters. His works are dated between 540 and 520 BC. Set. He is not considered an outstanding artist, but he often involuntarily created funny scenes. Above all, the oversized heads of his mostly quite peaceful-looking figures with their often clenched fists and conspicuously worked out noses do not lack a certain comedy from a modern point of view. His style is imprecise and, according to John Boardman, looks careless. But he uses colors very imaginatively for patterns in clothes.
The artist drew from a broad repertoire of mythological themes, including rarely shown scenes. His portrayal of Heracles and Busiris is unique in the form he shows. He also depicted scenes from the everyday world such as men on stilts and household scenes, which also included the depiction of a swing scene, which gave the artist his emergency name. He also decorated Panathenaic price amphoras .
literature
- John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters , Oxford 1956
- John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 1). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , p. 71.
- Elke Böhr : The swing painter , Mainz 1982 ( research on ancient ceramics, series II: Kerameus. Volume 4) ISBN 3-8053-0413-7
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| SURNAME | Swing painter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Swing painter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Attic vase painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr. |