The Notable Transition Of Visual Narrative Art

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 even mentioning, various early verifications of arts made by man proposes that individuals narrate stories before by using graphics. However, a problem is being incurred with such type of procedure since it somehow shows that if one is not knowledgeable of the narrative, it would be difficult for him to understand the portrait particularly the ancient things. The thing is that they are not systematically arranged unlike words encrypt in a paper.

But this time, there is already a great improvement in the way pictures tell a story and that is through the innovation of motion pictures or what is commonly called a visual media. Now this media also underwent its developments from being just a motion presentation, to having an audio, to being colored, and finally, to being the superior quality it is right now. This way, you need not have any difficulty in understanding the message.

Visual narrative has actually been quoted to describe different media ranging from news and information to entertainment. Examples of these are photojournalism, photo essay, documentary film, movies, television, graphic novels, and comic books. So in short, it is any kind of story or information which is presented visually.

Though far from the start, narrative art currently offers a much wide ranging production of data and one can really see how visual media shows its product. Due to that, it has turn out to be a concern to various fields most especially in the academe. And as what is being expected, it gave knowledge to its viewers in a very conventional 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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