How Visual Narrative Art Developed


By Lelia Hall


The transition from the time before to today is really notable. Even with the works of art, there are a lot of improvements and innovations which you would really admire. But the field of art is vast and you would be overwhelmed to think about the changes that happen to each of the fields most particularly with visual arts.

When you say visual arts, there is always the idea of dealing with items that can be seen. Now speaking of this, quoting the term visual, you would identify items like those of photography, sculpture, illustrations, paintings, and graphics. But this time, you will admire what visual narrative art brings you with the changes it has incurred through the years.

A portion of item which tells a narrative like the aforementioned items is called narrative art. It usually manifests events happening that is portrayed on painted walls such as that in the Ancient Egypt and some of the past civilizations. It manifests events painted or sketched anywhere that when deciphered would tell narrate stories. It also actually because of these artworks that history is reminisced.

Not mentioning, many of the early evidences of arts that are manmade portrays natives telling stories through graphic presentations. But the problem is seen with such kind of process for it manifests that if someone does not know the narrative, then it may be hard for him understanding such pictures particularly ancient ones. This is due to the fact that they are not organized in sequence unlike words being encoded in a paper.

However, in such a moment, there is already advancement in the method the pictures relate a story and that is because of the innovation of pictures that move also identified as visual media. This medium also happened to develop from a mere presentation that is moving to having audio to having color and finally to having superior definitive quality in this moment. By this, there are no longer difficulties in interpreting the message.

This endeavor was actually quoted in describing various media classifying from news bulletin and info to entertainment from media. These can be photojournalism, television, photo essay, movies, comic books, documentary films, arts and graphic novels. It is in short a narrative or info that is portrayed via visual presentation.

But far from its beginning, narrative craft now gives a very comprehensive presentation of information and you can very well see that in how the visual media presents its results. Because of that, it has become an interest to several fields, especially to the academic community. And just as expected, it provided understanding to its audience in the most convenient way.

Now here are the distinguishing characteristics which you will find in this presentation. It has a persuasive story that has a point of view, images of high quality, a subject matter with pressing issues concerning environmental, social, and spiritual value, and an appeal for transformation in behaviors and attitudes. So given these, you will most likely benefit a lot and be satisfied.

This is the kind of art that is being talked about. It also gives people refreshment in their due time. So if you find yourself and your eyes stressed, then visual art is a good relaxation for you.




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