Represent time in visual language: painting, moving picture, narrative construction, and semiotics in the photo-book

Abstract

Implementing temporality resources achieved by Painting as an art form, can help to represent Time and build the narrative structure in genres of the moving image. Although, rigorously, it is not possible for us to reproduce time, it was possible through creative challenges that bounds were overcome. In order to understand it, this paper begins with a review of the concept of representation to later explain, from a perspective of art semiotics, the representation of Time in Painting through some resources contributed by early painting artists. Later on, the same resources are extrapolated and analyzed upon some cases from the genres of video, cinema, comic and photobook, to observe their narrative efficiency and aesthetic effect when applied in forms of the moving image.