What styles were popular in ancient Greek ceramic decoration design? What are the basic characteristics of each style?

Pottery bottles are the main daily utensils and export commodities of the Greeks, and Athens and Corinth are the important production centers of pottery bottles. In ancient times, there were three styles: oriental style, black painting style and red painting style.

In the 7th century BC, bottle paintings were mainly in the oriental style, with animal heads and plant patterns influenced by Egypt and the two river basins. Black painting style appeared in the early 6th century BC. It paints the main characters in black, and the background retains the ochre color of the earth, which makes the outline of the image stand out, just like a silhouette, and the details are slightly shown with a hook line. His masterpieces include Achilli Uss and Ajax Playing Dice. The red painting style appeared at the end of the 6th century BC, which is just the opposite of the black painting style. It takes black as the background color, leaving the main part of ochre color, and depicts the details of the characters with lines. This style was mainly popular in the classical period. Bottle paintings mostly show plot scenes, mainly myths and daily life themes, and express all kinds of characters, dramatic moving scenes and delicate feelings with smooth and beautiful lines.