Abstract
The way in which abstract and figural decoration on Attic Geometric vases interacted offers a clue to larger principles underlying their development. On the basis of these principles one can recognize a recurrent (periodic) pattern within the periods called in current practice Early, Middle, and Late Geometric. This throws a new light on the creativity of largely anonymous artists in that certain choices they made at each of several recognizable stages led to a specifically Attic achievement: a dynamic relationship of body and neck decoration combined with a means of concentrating attention on desired segments of decoration whether abstract or figural.
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