Affecter

The affecter (also known as Campy painter ) was an Attic black-figure vase - painter and potter, active around 550-530 BCE in Athens.

He received his Notnamen after his spruce, ' campy ' figure style, on the basis of which it about 135 vessels can be attributed to this day. The affecter was both potter and painter. His specialty was amphorae. He painted mainly ovoid amphorae and Bauchamphoren of new at this time type C.

He was particularly interested in the decorative effect of his pictures from formulaic figures in long coats or with spread gestures, the narrative content remained secondary. This tendency to formalism and in many details affecter is a successor of Amasis painter whose artistic quality but missing him. Together with the elbows out- painter, he is counted among the black- Mannerist.

His pictures look a little like an unreal world. The figures of the Affecters usually have small heads and well-padded body, if he is clothed, but rectangular and pointed, when he painted her naked. His ornaments he draws very carefully. He also liked his robes decorated with colored dots. Its plant ornaments are obviously closely related to those ostgriechischer workshops such as those of Klazomenian group and the Northampton Group and make for a lively cultural exchange in this period between Attica and the Ionian Greece. The special feature of his late amphorae is the replacement of the pieces on the Amphorenhälsen by plant ornaments.