Thursday, March 19, 2015

Some Essential Facts About 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.

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 The descriptive art has been criticized as outdated and faded but, to some extent, it is still valued by some institutions and religions.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

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.

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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