And this ambiguity becomes the very substance of new art genres that Giorgione introduced and Titian and others elaborated: narrative allegory, eroticized figure painting and portraiture.
These questions provide the structure to elaborate narratives, the different conflicts in the plot.
The confessions included elaborate narratives about how the agency supposedly distributed "chips," or homing beacons, to local spies.
"Broad Street" (2001), the largest, most recent video piece in the exhibition, indicates Ms. Wearing's interest in more elaborate narratives.
We spin elaborate narratives out of the slenderest of observational threads: Look, the blue jay is trying to dislodge the cowbird from the feeder.
How could he hope to go back to his previous work — to write elaborate narratives of crime and detection, full of plots and counterplots, with all the necessary corrections and revisions and redrafting that a writer must do?
This time round there are no elaborate narratives, but there is a common theme: these are songs of a broken, divided society and the gap between rich and poor, but with the anger matched against humour.
We could hear her in there, nattering at them, networking with Piglet and Raggedy Ann, creating family groups, constructing elaborate narratives — which is what I may be doing someday in the Good Shepherd Home — and she was happy as a clam.
Elaborate narratives appear behind the patron saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist painted on the side panels, while the central piece is an impressive elaboration of the enthroned Madonna between angels and saints (including Catherine) that one finds in innumerable other devotional pieces attributed to Memling.
They had to become auteurs too, creating elaborate narratives for their garments, conveyed with the help of interviews and press notes, and revolving around, say, the idea of a young Sicilian widow who picks herself up, moves to Mykonos and opens a disco, putting grief behind with the aid of a rhinestone-studded crocheted bikini.
