Career
He was active between 585 and 570 British Columbia. Besides the Kentucky Painter, the KX Painter was the main representative of the Comast Group, which succeeded the Gorgon Painter. His conventional name was allocated by John Beazley. He is considered the better and chronologically somewhat earlier representative of the group.
He was the first painter in Athens to occasionally depict komasts on his vases, a motif adopted from Corinthian vase painting.
He mainly painted skyphoi, lekanes, kothones and Comast cups. In contrast to later representatives of the group, he still mostly painted animals, in a more careful and powerful style than the Gorgon Painter.
Some mythological scenes by him are also known. Especially famous are his small-fornat mythical scenes placed within animal friezes.
