Monday, March 23, 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.

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.

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.

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.

During ancient past, before the introduction of literacy, most of these unique drawings were done with a concurrent descriptive style. With the development of literacy, art has as well developed and pictures were well organized like words on a paper which helped in defining the direction of the story more easily.

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.

The dawn of technology has brought about great improvements in the field of art. Art has been used in other aspects apart from telling stories. There is a great change compared to the traditional art which focused on a single dimension of descriptive art.

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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