Narrative Art

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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 scene Or an ongoing, continuous narrattive.
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• 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 ESSAYgt DO NOT USE examples from
  Prehistory, Egypt, or Ancient Near East

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• One Scene, Goyas Third of May, 1808

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• Multiple scenic, Gauguins Where Do We Come From?
  What Are We? Where Are We Going?

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Bayuex Tapestry Battle of Hastings Multiple
scenes

• Column of Trajan
• Romans vs Dacians
• Multiple scenes

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Life and Death of the Buddhamulti scene frieze
from India
Presentation of captives to Lord Chan Muwan, Mayan

• Non European Narration

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Tale of Genji, Japanhandscroll

• Lady Feng and The Bear,
• China, handscroll

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Alfred Steiglitzs The Steerage, 1907 Single
scene photography
Rodins Burghers of Calais, Single scene sculpture