Wednesday, 18 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Descriptive drawing comes in different forms and each represent a particular action. These types include simultaneous narration, monoscenic narrative, continuous, progressive, sequential narrative and synoptic narration. All these are used differently depending on the artist's choice and particular intended narrative action.




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