We can see art as a means of communication. Every information has two modalities: (1) the semantic information and (2) the estethic information. From the wievpoint of the arts the interesting part is where the two modalities (or form and content) intertwine. By researching the sensual aspect of the arts we are engaged with morphology. Every formation of forms is based on nature as for making (new) forms it is essential to have insight into the visual and tactile structure of reality. The connection to the content and the interpretative aspect (for which the word narrativity here stands) is made by seeing art as a system of signs, because signs are connecting the physical with the abstract mental world. Man is, no matter what he does, acting ideologically, this holds true as well for artistic creation. In the narrow sense stories in art are basically connected to the human figure and the demonstration of occurances, in the broader sense, however, the viewer can advance a work of art with an attitude more or less narrative and can tolerably see a narrative content in a non-subjective painting aswell. The distinction of the arts however remains, that they approach the world directly through its sensuousness and not (only) by conveying data.
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