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Limitations

  • These terms can limit VN in several ways
  • By requiring a specific arrangement of images
  • Requiring a specific representation subject or technique
  • These descriptions/limits restrict the study of VN through narrow definitions
  • Combining aspects forms its own type; there is no one classification
  • Advocates for general use of “visual narrative,” with three broad genres

Distinctive features of VNs

  • Presence of a story
  • Uses visuals
  • Incorporates a “narrative” - varies on context; generally, some representation of an event or events
  • Incorporates a “story” - different from a narrative, since a story is what is made up of events (while a narrative represents that story

(cont)

  • Seeks to communicate with the onlooker
  • Presence of actors (someone who performs an action)
  • Actors exist in some “universe” of their own

Origins of VNs

  • Early examples can go back to any caveman who drew on a wall
  • Born out of desire to: explain an event, provide information on who/what/where, express history, create a visual message for others present and future

Advantage of VNs

  • Can reach out to most people, since VNs do not always require literacy
  • Provide insight into the context of a culture

Specific types of VNs

  • Authors propose their own general system of classifying VNs to avoid limiting VNs
  • Static visual narratives: not dynamic, requires the audience to provide dynamism; significance exist in the perceptual experience of the viewer
  • Characteristics - medium occupies surface are (pages, walls), fixed in place
  • Viewer’s eye is mobile
  • Undetermined viewing order
  • Viewer determines time of viewing/event occurrence

Dynamic Visual Narrative

  • Add movement to frozen images, many images at high speed
  • Story constructed before the eyes of the viewer, for the viewer
  • Constant replacement of images
  • Story constructed over time
  • Viewer does not determine order of events
  • Example: films

Interactive Visual Narrative

  • Visual, narrative, interacts with the viewer
  • In a modern sense, the viewer is a part of the story
  • Predetermined, yet the viewer chooses when he sees it. Incorporates aspects of SVN and DVN.
  • Can involve viewer choosing sequence of events
  • Examples - games, interactive stories

Examples of VNs: “reading” VN’s

What is “Art?”

  • Form of self-expression
  • Communication
  • Comes in many forms (e.g. visual arts, music, dance, drama, technical theater)

Cont’d

  • What distinguishes us from each other
  • Our unique identities
  • Breaks us from confines of nature
  • Basis for sports, games, language, science, and philosophy (i.e. creative instinct)
  • Greatest calling, hence the expression, “I do it for art.”

Idea/Purpose

  • Subjectivism
  • Impulses, emotions, tenets, philosophies, purposes first associated with creation of work
  • Content of work

Form

  • Physical form (e.g. book, pencil sketch, paper mache, furniture, comic book, etc.)
  • Media used

Idiom

  • Genre associated with work
  • Use of styles, gestures, or subject matter already established by a “School of Art” (e.g. Pop Art, Classical, Ballet, Opera, Jazz, Surrealism, Abstract, etc.)

Structure

  • Arrangement
  • Final product; what to include/exclude
  • Method of composing the work
  • Organization

Craft

  • Construction
  • “Practical” knowledge and skills
  • Innovation in terms of technique
  • Problem-solving
  • “Getting the job done”

Surface

  • Production values
  • Most apparent “superficial” features and aspects to value
  • Essentially, the “tip of the iceberg” to the medium

The Hollow Truth

  • Art with appealing surfaces lack most of the inner steps
  • However, older art established the idioms

“Cycle as Old as Art Itself”

  • Discovery of art
  • Harnessing of love towards it that last a lifetime
  • Early stage: immersion in subject matter of art form.
  • Then, realization of form and necessity of certain learnable skills

The Artist’s Purpose

  • “Shake” the current art establishment by going against the “fundamental laws” of it
  • Artists such as Spiegelman, Mecay, Picasso, and Virginia Woolf
  • Convey messages effectively through art by controlling the medium and refining it
  • Artists such as Schulz, Eisner, Dickens, and Capra

Two Focal Points

  • Ideas/purposes
  • Form
  • Seasoned artists generally switch between these two steps to create the novel and profound

“Can Comics Be Art?”

  • Form of visual narrative
  • “Sequential art”
  • Involves “Six Steps”
  • Involves all seriousness of any pursuit in the arts

Six Steps and Beyond

  • The “Six Steps” can be applied to a broad range of artistic disciplines and art forms
  • General definition of the creative process

“Understanding Comics” Chapter 7

McCloud

The "SIX STEPS"

Pimenta & Poovaiah

“On Defining Visual Narratives”

  • Visual narrative (VN) - literally a combination of visuals and narratives
  • Many more aspects, generally involves visuals that tell a story
  • Some types of VN, definitions vary - films, narrative painting, history painting, animation, pictorial narratives, sequential art, comics (the last three are somewhat related)

Static visual narrative - example

What type of VN?

Where do you look?

Characteristics?

What story?

Religious

Narrative Photography

l’art pour l’art

Basic Human Drives

Survival

Cont’d

Reproduction

IDEA / PURPOSE

FORM

IDIOM

STRUCTURE

CRAFT

SURFACE

Apple Model of Six Steps

The Tempting Apple

  • Surface is the most easily appreciated aspect in all arts at a glance, which is what makes mainstream art so popular

Visual Narrative

By Henry Lin & Conor Ryan

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