What sources the designer of the frieze drew upon is hard to gauge, certainly large scale narrative art was familiar to 5th-century Athenians as in the Stoa poikile painting by Polygnotos of Thasos.
Perhaps this is what everyone wants: an impassioned taskmaster in the Toscanini mode, although van Zweden has yet to approach Toscanini's strategic brilliance in structuring large-scale narratives.
Once, the rules stipulated that an artist, to be recognised as new and, hence, important, must paint large-scale narratives - "histories" like Copley's painting of Watson and the Shark.
In a New York Times review of the book, Jay McInerney wrote that the novel's "skeleton of satire is fleshed out with several domestically scaled narratives and masses of hyperrealistic quotidian detail".
So is Mr. Soderbergh's total and unfussy mastery of large-scale narrative filmmaking, and his unapologetic, undidactic and altogether welcome display of social conscience.
After the funeral, in talks over several nights with family members and on the flight home, Ms. Soyoo's plan for a large-scale narrative of her life took on fresh urgency.
After visiting Greece in 1985, and closely studying classical friezes, he embarked on a series of large-scale narrative works, including "After Olympia," a panorama more than 75 feet long, inspired by the temple to Zeus at Olympia.
February 8 2012 February 21 201212 In the next two weeks, the company will offer a broad swath of repertory by Balanchine, Robbins, and Ratmansky, as well as several performances of two large-scale narrative ballets by Peter Martins and Lynne Taylor-Corbett.
Masami Teraoka: The Cloisters Last Supper | A selection of new, monumentally scaled, narrative style triptych paintings from the artist's ongoing Cloisters Last Supper series.
Kelly's large-scale narrative installations have blurred the boundaries between the personal and the political by visualizing the impact of historical events on the precarious nature of everyday life.
In London, the review in The Sunday Telegraph was more critical, finding it "is badly let down by its form, a split-time-scale narrative...[and] is significantly short of narrative dynamism", while novelist Amanda Craig concludes that it "reads as the work of a young writer who is straining with too much effort".
