Saturday 28 March 2015

Types And Scope Of Narrative Drawings

By Lelia Hall


Art can be used to tell a story as a sequence of events unfolding over time. Narrative drawings and art employs the power of visual images to evoke emotions, ignite imaginations, and capture cultural aspirations and truths. It has a great ability to narrate stories across different cultures and preserve for future generations.

There are many forms of narrative or descriptive art around the world. Among them are articulated language, pictures, gestures and a combination of all of them. Narrative is present in myths, legends, epics, comedy and paintings. In most societies, these forms of narratives are well preserved in archives and museums to appreciate the history of the culture of mankind.

The modern art has change all that these complexities came with. Every aspect of art is done systematically and in a chronological manner. You can easily capture the idea in the paintings and drawings. It also encompassed the use of quality graphics to come up with graphics and sculpture that make more sense.

Descriptive artists use different types of images to represent their descriptive action. The static images in a medium do not by themselves tell stories since stories are told over time and pictures are seen all at once. However, all descriptive arts have something in common. Different cultures have developed distinctive ways to distinguish descriptive action from pictures.

Monoscenic narratives represent only a single scene. There is nothing like repetition of characters and there is only one action taking place. Depending on the artist's intention, landscape and portraits can be good examples of this type of art, other illustrations are the scenes from the Greek mythology whereby critical points in a story would be captured in a single scene.

Another form of is the continuous narrative which illustrates different scenes of a story in one frame without any dividers. This is where the sequence of events within a story is defined through the repetition of the main character. It emphasize in the change in movement by use of repeating characters as indicators of scene change in a story.

The synoptic narratives depicts one scene but the characters are portrayed several times in a frame to show that multiple or different scenes are taking place. It basically provide visual signs to convey the sequence. This type can be very complex to interpret for those who are not familiar with the story at hand.

There are different types of approaches to narrative art. These include art in series, descriptive works within a frame, works with no clear story line and works that document an event or era. All of these are widely used by different artists depending on their theme.

In recent times, narrative painting and sculpture have been used to give a picture of, not only great moments in history, but also domestic dramas of a particularly sentimental nature. Story telling was believed to be best pursued by writers, but also visual artists have proved themselves to do it even better. Modern art can be used in many different aspects in contemporary life.




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