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Types And Scope Of Narrative Drawings

By Lelia Hall


Art works have been widely used for the last two centuries. Narrative drawings is a form of visual art basically used to narrate a story or portray what happened earlier or past events and ongoing story by use of pictures, sculptures, etc. This art derived its history from the stone age when the early man used drawings to give meaning to a scenario.

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.

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 The descriptive art has been criticized as outdated and faded but, to some extent, it is still valued by some institutions and religions.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

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.

Paintings were mostly used in traditional art to cover most of the descriptive scenes. It is easier to represent these in paintings than in sculpture. Illustrating some figures in sculpture becomes more complex and may involve expert work and also may be hard to interpret. There are different types of narratives used today. Artists come up with their own ways to portray stories, represent the space and shape time. Artwork is never limited to one type of story, it is a diversified discipline.

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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