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Discovering the Connection in Narrative Art

Everybody loves a great story.
To this day, children are still great fans of story telling and picture books.
The more people there are and the more stories to tell, the merrier it becomes.
Retelling old family stories to younger ones is another way of reconnecting with the past and with people who have made a difference in your lives.
What everyone remembers best and most about a story are those chapters that are closest to their hearts.
Everyone has their favorite stories.
In every story you read or hear, you remember those characters and events that have special meaning for you.
There is something about them that triggers a special memory or emotion in you that you would wish to relive over and over again.
There are other stories you come across, and those are what you see in a narrative painting.
A painting on canvas narrates just another part of life, just as it happens.
It may be a still-life portrait, but the vision of it moves you in certain ways.
It awakens your senses to the sights, smells, and sounds depicted in the scenery.
It may be a painting of a lush garden of flowers or ladies having afternoon tea.
It could be some mysterious place with exotic-looking people or a festive scene of a community in a strange and foreign land.
Familiar characters and settings evoke a feeling of comfort and pleasure, while unfamiliar pictures evoke a sense of wonder and excitement for the unknown.
Narrative artists reach out to you and bring you into their world.
What you regard as ordinary becomes extraordinary for you with their skill and craft.
Narrative art transforms the complicated web of everyday living into a simpler picture that everyone can understand.
Themes like a typical market scene, a day on farm, or children at play give faces to characters we all know and immediately form a connection with.
Narrative art inspires you to always enjoy every moment of your life.
Your life is like a palette unlike any other with all its colors and shades.
Its many facets come alive in the images that surround you, or in one that is right before you.
It reminds you to be thankful for what you have and not to take them for granted, however ordinary they may be.
Narrative art gives beauty to everything, whether it has a happy or sad story to tell.
Narrative art unfolds the beginning, the middle, or the end of a story, and whether it will have a happy ending will be entirely up to you and how you see the picture.
The human figure is ever at the center of narrative art, showing just how influential and instrumental human life can be towards how nature develops for better or for worse.
It reminds you to stay connected with everything around you and especially with yourself.
In that way, you will never lose your love for a good story and you will always know when one is being told.


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