. A good idea is to note the main idea and then note the information that supports it. Note-taking must be learned, and it takes time. The better your note-taking skills, the easier you should find the TOEFL® reading section, as well as other sections of the TOEFL iBT, | figure pottery allowed for three-quarter profiles and a more detailed rendering of anatomical details such as individual fingers or the curved outline of an ankle bone. With this technique each figure had a natural silhouette against the black background. This meant that overlapping designs could be painted allowing for more elaborate compositions and giving a more natural look that suggested movement. Black figure and red figure pottery both usually depicted popular themes in Ancient Greek art such as battles mythological stories and heroic deeds. Both also contained a dramatic contrast between the image and the background. However the rendering of the designs on the pottery contained many differences. Black figure pottery used many geometric patterns in its design for borders and on clothing. However red figure pottery did not favoring a simpler look. The overlapping technique used in red figure pottery allowed for more elaborate compositions whereas if images overlapped in black figure pottery they were likely to resemble a black blob after firing was completed. The biggest contrast of all seems to be the detail that red figure pottery allowed in its depiction of human features emotion and movement. Because of this ability to create more natural images unlike the static two-dimensional black figure technique the red figure technique is considered the height of Ancient Greek pottery. Soon after the advent of the red figure technique the black figure technique was rarely used. By 450 BCE just eighty years after the invention of the red figure technique very little new pottery was being produced. Despite much speculation no definite reason exists to explain why. However it is believed that over 100 000 intact vessels from Ancient Greece have survived to the present day serving as the majority of painting examples from that time. These functional art objects not only convey information about the artistic ability of the Ancient Greeks but they also provide clues .
