The Importance Of Storytelling In Art

The roots of storytelling have been laid centuries before movies were made. Most of the earliest evidence of art shows that stories were told through pictures. Nevertheless, without knowing the story that is being told itself it is hard to understand them, since they don’t have a precise schematic. Different cultures have established their own distinctive ways of telling a story through these pictures. For an artwork to have a narrative character it needs to have several elements. Firstly, it needs a hero, defined by his actions, the events and his response. Secondly, for a story to be told and to have a meaning it also needs to have a start a development and an end. Thirdly, it needs to express real emotions. And lastly, the most important

They may even be spread through space. This doesn’t make it obvious that it is a narrative. Somehow like the aborigine people who didn’t combine a sequence of stories. Here an important part plays even the culture of that civilization. So, if an outsider were to notice these paintings, to him these may be just doddles, which on the contrary to the aborigine people they tells a story. An interesting thing that they did was the combination of the senses with the paintings, which we didn’t notice in the other artworks. All these other artworks told a story but neither of them really seemed to makes us involved or emotional. What the aborigine people had discovered was exactly this, the combination of sound and sight which made everything more realistic and reinforced the message of the story. According to the Nigel Spivey in the documentary “How Art Made the World”, sound was the only element that kept these paintings alive, and the one that mostly grabs our attention. Also the people in this culture or even in other ones usually when they see a painting or artwork they already know something about it and this brings them a recollection of memories of the story. This also becomes part of the narrative, an artwork being able to bring the story to your mind and being able to retell makes it a