Geometric art

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Geometric art is a phase of Greek art, characterized largely by geometric motifs in vase painting, that flourished towards the end of the Greek Dark Ages and a little later, c. 900–700 BC.^[1] Its center was in Athens, and from there the style spread among the trading cities of the Aegean.^[2] The so-called Greek Dark Ages were considered to last from c. 1100 to 800 BC^[3] and include the phases from the Protogeometric period to the Middle Geometric I period, which Knodell (2021) calls Prehistoric Iron Age.^[4] The vases had various uses or purposes within Greek society, including, but not limited to, funerary vases and symposium vases.