Art and Storytelling
The painting above does not tell a story. It’s an abstract painting the image of which mostly reminds me of an image of a strange attractor. I see something similar in Ida O’Keeffe’s painting as we see here:
While this is very interesting — especially since there’s no way O’Keeffe could have known about strange attractors when she made her painting in 1936 — there’s definitely not a story here.
Indeed, we don’t really find a lot of stories in art anymore. Once upon a time, we could find almost endless paintings of stories — stories from the Bible being the most common in Europe, of course, but also stories from mythology. If you go to any museum that has European art from the Renaissance to the mid-1800s, you will find paintings depicting Greco-Roman mythology. Here are a few you will see if you go to the Dallas Museum of Art:
