Thursday, March 14, 2013

Narrative


A narrative tells a story, whether if it’s a book or a painting. During the Renaissance, narrative paintings, mostly religious based, were being created. As Bird states, they “usually either present a new slant on a story already familiar…or employ well-established visual conventions to an unfamiliar story”.

I could see my students making narrative comic books at the start of the year are an icebreaker and a way for the students to get to know each other and feel comfortable talking about personal situations in class. What if I used a narrative to show the creation through the distractions of a building? What if my students look a story they wrote from class and turned it the “climatic moment” of their story into a drawing or painting?

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