"Narrative paintings" are artworks that tell a story or depict a series of events. They use visual imagery to convey a particular narrative or storyline to the viewer.
Sentences with «narrative paintings»
She was originally an abstract painter but later began to create narrative paintings. (artefuse.com)
She has been credited with injecting new force into contemporary narrative painting. (whitney.org)
I liked abstract expressionism and modernism, but in college I figured out that I wanted to do these figurative narrative paintings. (juxtapoz.com)