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 of human art suggests that people told stories with pictures. However, without some knowledge of the story being told it is very hard to read ancient pictures because they are not organized in a systematic way like words on a page, but rather can unfold in many different directions at once.
Morris «la actividad del cuerpo al manipular diversos materiales en el curso de diferentes procesos abre múltiples posibilidades de conducta. … A la luz de ello se evidencia lo artificioso de distinciones basadas en el soporte (pintura, escultura, danza, etc.)»