Narrative art is art that tells a story, either as a moment in an ongoing story or as a sequence of events unfolding over time. Some of the earliest evidence...

anthropology today among traditional indigenous peoples. Narrative is found in all mediums of human creativity, art, and entertainment, including speech, literature...

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is a museum founded by filmmaker George Lucas and his wife, businesswoman Mellody Hobson. Once completed, the museum...

In any narrative, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character, typically, a character who contrasts with the protagonist, in order to better...

literary studies, a theme is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative. Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept...

recurs across a story; often, it helps develop other narrative elements such as theme or mood. A narrative motif can be created through the use of imagery...

entertainment (art, movies, television, comic books, the graphic novel). In short, any kind of a story, told visually, is a visual narrative. It can also...

Nonlinear narrative, disjointed narrative, or disrupted narrative is a narrative technique where events are portrayed, for example, out of chronological...

A setting (or backdrop) is the time and geographic location within a narrative, either non-fiction or fiction. It is a literary element. The setting initiates...

In a literary work, film, or other narrative, the plot is the sequence of events in which each event affects the next one through the principle of cause-and-effect...

A narrative technique (known among literary fictional narratives as a literary technique, literary device, or fictional device) is any of several specific...

Traditionally, conflict is a major element of narrative or dramatic structure that creates challenges in a story by adding uncertainty as to whether the...

funding to schools and libraries, and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a forthcoming art museum in Los Angeles developed with his wife, Mellody Hobson...

Narrative therapy (or narrative practice) is a form of psychotherapy that seeks to help patients identify their values and the skills associated with...

Narrative exposition, now often simply exposition, is the insertion of background information within a story or narrative. This information can be about...

between characters or visual action. The narrative mode, which is sometimes also used as synonym for narrative technique, encompasses the set of choices...

A frame story (also known as a frame tale, frame narrative, sandwich narrative, or intercalation) is a literary technique that serves as a companion piece...

Narratology is the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect human perception. The term is an anglicisation of French...

Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax) 'staircase, ladder') or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension and drama, or it is the time when...

which held a central role in academic art. The genres in hierarchical order are: History painting, including narrative, religious, mythological and allegorical...

The Art of Biblical Narrative is a 1981 book by Robert Alter in which he outlines a literary approach to the Hebrew Bible. He proposes that "the Bible...

Creative nonfiction (also known as literary nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, literary journalism or verfabula) is a genre of writing that uses literary...

In art and iconography, a motif (/moʊˈtiːf/ ) is an element of an image. Motifs can occur both in figurative and narrative art, and in ornament and geometrical...

years old. Cave of Beasts, Egypt Art portal Abstract art Illustration Narrative art Neofigurative Art Realism (arts) Stuckism Tate. "Glossary:Figurative"...

life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, narrative, symbolistic (as in Symbolist art), emotive (as in Expressionism) or political in nature...

include: visual narrative, graphic narrative, pictorial narrative, picto-narrative, sequential narrative, sequential pictorial narrative, sequential storytelling...

A first-person narrative (also known as a first-person perspective, voice, point of view, etc.) is a mode of storytelling in which a storyteller recounts...

is to kill her. Slay the Princess received critical acclaim for its narrative, art, music, and voice performances. Slay the Princess is a visual novel...

organizations, including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. She is also on the board of directors of the Starbucks Corporation...

Practice for Narrative Environments, now M.A. for Narrative Environments. A course at Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design Narrative Environments...