Narrative Art

Telling a Story

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• Narrative art is art that tells a story, either as a moment in an ongoing story or as a sequence of events unfolding over time.

In Other Words,

Narrative art can express just one sceneOr an ongoing, continuous narrattive.

• N art is art in which the primary purpose is to tell a story.• Story can be told in any medium• Subjects range from genre, historical, to religious, etc.

• ***FOR YOUR ESSAY> DO NOT USE examples from Prehistory, Egypt, or Ancient Near East

• One Scene, Goya’s Third of May, 1808

• Multiple scenic, Gauguin’s Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

• Column of Trajan• ~Romans vs Dacians• Multiple scenes

Bayuex Tapestry

~Battle of Hastings

Multiple scenes

Life and Death of the Buddhamulti scene frieze from India

• Non European Narration

Presentation of captives to Lord Chan Muwan, Mayan

Tale of Genji, Japanhandscroll

• Lady Feng and The Bear, • China, handscroll

Alfred Steiglitz’s The Steerage, 1907

Single scene photography

Rodin’s Burghers of Calais,

Single scene sculpture