Narrative Art
Art
which represents elements of a story.
While history painting depicts famous events,
genre painting depict events of a more everyday sort.
Modernists largely rejected narrative art in the 1950s and
1960s, though it has returned strongly since then, with artists
embracing several means of presentation viewed by modernists as
theatrical, and therefore inappropriate to the purity of art. These
include video art and performance art.
Narrative may refer
to a textual element, either part of or accompanying a work. For
instance, the contemporary American photographer Duane Michals adds
written texts to his series of photographs.
Representative
artists:
- 19th Century and before:
David Teniers, the Younger, Flemish; Francisco José de Goya y
Lucientes, Spanish; Georges de La Tour, French; Anne-Louis Girodet
de Roussy-Trioson, French; Théodore Géricault, French; James
Jacques Joseph Tissot, French; Sir Edwin Landseer, English; James
Clarke Hook, English; Sir John Everett Millais, English; Keeley
Halswelle, English; Augustus E. Mulready, English; Eastman Johnson,
American; Winslow Homer, American;
- 20th Century:
Norman Rockwell, American; Reginald Marsh, American; Jacob Lawrence,
American; Mark Tansey, American;