Black figure painting is "an ancient Greek technique in which the figures appear as black silhouettes on red background."
Black figure pottery is one of the main recognizable pottery styles exceptional to antiquated Greece. Black figure pottery is anything but difficult to perceive in light of the fact that it highlights dark outline figures of individuals and occasions. It ended up famous between the seventh and fifth hundreds of years BC, before being supplanted by another style called red figure pottery.
The black shading in black figure ceramics isn't a color or color, however a consequence of terminating dirt in the furnace. As the vases were being made, a fluid earth called slip was connected to fix up powerless territories or hold sorts out. The slip turned dark amid terminating, and potters started deliberately painting on the slip in unmistakable shapes previously terminating, bringing about black figures.