Is The Red-Figure Calyx-Krater Of The Abduction Of Europa?

The Red-Figure Calyx-Krater of the Abduction of Europa is a painted vase created by Asteas. Asteas was a Greek artist that was active during the 300 BCE era. This particular artwork was created in 380 BCE and is part of the Classical Greek period. The piece utilizes Greek mythology and tells the story of Europa and Zeus. Asteas uses various art principles such as scale, proportion, pattern, composition, shapes, and perspective in the style of the Classical period to create this artwork. The shapes and proportions for the vase and the illustrations are a visual element that adds interest to the artwork. In terms of the illustration, the shapes used for the anatomy of the humans and animals are not naturalistic. Human faces are idealistic and share similar

The last significant shape of the vase are the handles at the sides that are shaped similarly to bull horns. Other uses of art principles are scale and composition. Hierarchical scale and composition are used to show the importance of the parts of the illustrations. For example, the placement of Europa and the bull being in the center of the vase and the scale of Europa and the Bull are much larger than the people and animals surrounding them. This emphasizes their importance to the artwork as the story depicted is about them. Another example of scale and composition showing importance of a feature is the placement of the sea animals and their size in comparison with the other illustrations. The sea animals are significantly smaller and placed low on the vase as they are not the most important part of the artwork. Lastly, the artist's use of pattern and perspective gives visual interest to the vase. Similar to ancient Egyptian art, the people are in a composite pose with side profile heads and 34 profile bodies. There is also the use of overlapping done by the bull to the