A lesson from Aristotle on how to craft powerful narrative in paintings.
Poussin
Tools provided in Storyspace are ideal for analysing text and painted narratives, as well as developing them into hypertext.
Poussin was by no means the only artist to paint the narrative of Rinaldo and Armida. Here are many more.
The story behind Poussin’s painting explained, and its narrative techniques revealed.
Painting is one of the oldest and most widely-accessible media for narrative. But narrative painting is also one of the least studied.
Few landscape painters since have not been deeply influenced by his pioneering paintings. He also anticipated photographic effects on focus.
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A brief glance through the history of painting trees in the landscape, from Rubens and Poussin to van Gogh and Pissarro.
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