Exekias

Exekias was an Athenian artist who worked as a potter and painter and was famous for black figure painting on vessels. His artwork occurs in the mid-sixth-century around 550-525 BC. He signed his artworks as potter and painter, but with some artworks he only signed a s one or the other, perhaps showing that he wasn’t proud of his work. As a black figure painter, he experimented with new shapes and techniques and his popularity allowed him to export his works all across the Mediterranean region. [2] He was part of a collection of similar artists known as Group E which depicted similar stories and developed new vessels such as the calyx crater, but he himself didn't have a particular vessel that was unique to his work. The primary subject of his artworks were based on Greek mythology, which patrons believed to be a true history. One of his most famous artworks was //Ajax and Achilles Playing a Game// in which Exekias used crisscrossing diagonals and overlapping objects to creat spatial complexity. His artwork depicted the concept that humans were supreme, showing a decline in reverance to the gods.

//Ajax and Achilles Playing a Game// //Dionysos Cup//