lundi 23 mars 2015

Tracing The History Of Narrative Drawings

By Lelia Hall


Drawings, paintings, sculptures and other forms of artwork have widely been used from the ancient time to date for multiple purposes. In the field of narrative, art has been used in the form of narrative drawings. The core purpose of descriptive arts remains the same despite the change in time, telling a story either in a moment of an ongoing story or as a sequence of events unfolding over time.

With the improvement in modern technology, there has been a big variation in the nature of descriptive art. Comparing with the ancient art, it used to be done without following any given protocol or guidelines. This made the translation and interpretation of the information depicted more difficult and complex.

Narratives derive their history back during the history of mankind. There probably would never be people without these narratives. They are very important in learning the origin of man and the evolution to date.

The artists uses different forms of these educative drawings to describe separate type's narrative action. Simultaneous narrative comes with little visually noticeable organization to those with little or no knowledge about their purpose. It focuses on repeatable patterns, there commonly used in cultures which are oral rather literate in nature.

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 The descriptive art has been criticized as outdated and faded but, to some extent, it is still valued by some institutions and religions.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.

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.

Progressive narratives represents a single scene without repetition of characters. However, multiple actions are taking place representing the passing of time in a particular story. It not interpreted as a group of instantaneous events but rather a sequence independent on its location, it is mostly used in comic strips.

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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