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Geometric art
Geometric art.Term applied to Greek art in the 9th and 8th centuries bc, named after the decoration associated with the pottery of the period. Vases are characteristically divided into painted horizontal bands filled with various forms of geometric ornament, developing into stylized human and animal forms.
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