Stories

Stories have been passed on for many years and have been interpreted in many different ways.  The earliest stories were those in caves which were told by paintings up on walls.

The ancient Egyptians also had a similar way of story telling with painting on walls and had there vision of perfection in there paintings and stories.

The Ancient Greeks also told of many stories, old mythological stories which have been kept on being told even today, for example prometheus which is also a film now and has been interpreted in a different way to how the Greek mythologic original story was.

Stories are also seen as convincing people with religion, a theory and other things but a main example is Hitler in the war and the book he wrote minecampf and how he wanted everyone to be like what he thought was the perfect human, and to hate all others who are different in this case the jews.  Jews are known as the people of the book, the book writers, Hitler destroyed all of their books.  This image is known as 'The Burning of The Books'

The Jews are mostly remembered from their torture and abuse during the war, especially with the holocaust where thousands were killed.  Rachel Whiteread  was assigned to make a piece of art to commemorate this devastating event, she created a monument with books inside like a library and had all the books all together covered in cast.

There are many artists like millais who tell stories in their painting for example with ophelia.

 Artists like Tom Hunter and Gregory Crewdson have done modern versions of this painting