Art & Narrative

Pictures tell stories, they have for a long, long time.  With Post Modern thought, the story no longer had to be sequential or logical.  The allegorical became conceptual.  Artists began creating their own mythologies and basing their works on these self-imagined worlds.  The same has been true of great literature since the time of Homer.  So what has changed now that the narrative is back in action, reborn from the ashes of modernism in the 21st century?  Do we focus on the macro view of human existence like Matthew Ritchie or do we get micro about it and focus on the re-telling of a specific bank robbery like Pierre Hyughe?  Which is more relevant and does that matter?