lundi 30 mars 2015

Tracing The History 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.

It call for or requires some knowledge to understand the meaning of this art. It is very complicated to read and understand the ancient pictures since they are usually not organized in a systematic way like the words on a page. They can unfold in many different perspectives at once.

Coming up with a story or making a story clear requires sophisticated conventions. The descriptive art has been used long ago in the history of mankind. Numerous releases show the history of narratives of hunting or battle. The early people used illustrations like tracks to indicate the movement of prey or enemy which is similarly used in today's art whereby diagrammatic artworks are used to depict some information.

Examples of these descriptive arts can be seen very early in the history of arts. They give evidences to certain occurrences that happened long back. Egyptian tombs and the Greek vase paintings are good examples from the 16th century that describe both the mythological and factual events.

Modern art has now come into fashion. Painting and sculptures with narrative perspective have fell swiftly out of favor. The descriptive art has been criticized as outdated and faded but, to some extent, it is still valued by some institutions and religions. Nowadays, art has taken another direction. It uses more liberated artistic expressions to represent religion and literature. But the aspect of narrative cannot be overlooked due to the role it plays on the modern scenario of academics and culture.

The modern method of art representation has brought about more decent ways of narrating stories during the recent century. Nowadays, there is the use of newspapers, comic strips, comic books and artistic drawings on canvas among others. They all apply the modern technology like laser painting and canvas to bring the narrative exploits.

With the dawn of abstraction, artists have started to look at art as a means of personal expression rather than just storytelling. In the past, artists struggled to express their ideas in relation to the universe by using large gestural strokes with paintings on canvas. There have been a development in styles from that time though.

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.

The nature of these special drawings is diverse depending on the creativity and intentions of the artist and the type of narrative to be represented. It can be used in different circumstances in real life. Different cultures apply descriptive art to preserve and represents their cultural undertakings, it is also used in academic perspective for the purpose of empowering students.




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