Dipylon, A box of emptiness (2008)

This is a website that makes boxes with motives that become a pattern from our daily life. Print it out and fold. The title aims at the greek vase painting, se below.

  • During Geometric period vase painting began to develop and include purely Greek innovations. The Dipylon Vase is almost entirely covered with a geometric pattern, thus giving the name to this period. It also contains the first images of man and narrative seen in the art of this region in almost four hundred years. This vase was created as a grave marker and on the shoulder of the vase contains a funeral narrative. The figures are seen placing a shroud over the dead and mourning by pulling on their hair (detail). Each of these figures is made up primarily of geometric shapes. (http://webed.vw.vccs.edu/vwbaile/pages_art250/Lectures/250grek.html)
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This is a website that makes boxes with motives that become a pattern from our daily life. Print it out and fold. The title aims at the greek vase painting, se below.

  • During Geometric period vase painting began to develop and include purely Greek innovations. The Dipylon Vase is almost entirely covered with a geometric pattern, thus giving the name to this period. It also contains the first images of man and narrative seen in the art of this region in almost four hundred years. This vase was created as a grave marker and on the shoulder of the vase contains a funeral narrative. The figures are seen placing a shroud over the dead and mourning by pulling on their hair (detail). Each of these figures is made up primarily of geometric shapes. (http://webed.vw.vccs.edu/vwbaile/pages_art250/Lectures/250grek.html)
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