TheKX Painter was anAtticblack-figure vase painter. He was active between 585 and 570 BC. Besides theKY Painter, the KX Painter was the main representative of theComast Group, which succeeded theGorgon Painter. His conventional name was allocated byJohn Beazley. He is considered the better and chronologically somewhat earlier representative of the group. He was the first painter inAthens to occasionally depictkomasts on his vases, a motif adopted fromCorinthian vase painting. He mainly paintedskyphoi,lekanes,kothones andKomast 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. Somemythological scenes by him are also known. Especially famous are his small-fornat mythical scenes placed within animal friezes. The KX Painter can be considered the first Attic painter to achieve a quality at par with that reached inCorinth, then the dominant centre of Greek vase painting. Imitations of his works are known fromBoeotia.

• John Beazley:Attic Black-figure Vase-painters. Oxford 1956, p. 23-28.
• John Boardman:Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch, von Zabern, 4. edn, Mainz 1994 (Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt, Vol 1)ISBN 3-8053-0233-9, p. 19.

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