By Anant Pai
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The German writer and critic may have defended the idea that painting should restrict its ambition to the representation, through bodies, of a single moment of an action, but he goes on to add: All bodies, however, exist not only in space but also in time. They continue, and, at any moment of their continuance, may assume a different appearance and stand in different relations. 33 It is difficult for us not to read retrospectively into these lines an appropriate description of the narrative mechanism of traditional comics.
16 Personally, I believe this arrangement both reveals the logical connectedness of the scene and enriches its meaning. In fact, though, this is simply an episode extracted from a story that was already familiar (Poussin’s subjects were mainly taken from mythological or Old or New Testament sources). The story is not recounted—it is evoked, and this evocation is readily comprehensible only because the subject matter is already well-known. The spectator is at liberty to use the image as a starting point for summoning up the story as a whole, by recalling from memory the episodes that come before and after it.
But in the example of the Marmaduke strip quoted above, it is clear that it is the observation made by the little girl, a verbal utterance, therefore, that enables Morgan to extend the panel into a sequence—the image itself is static and does not invite this treatment. In the time of Nicolas Poussin, history painting was the most prestigious of all genres. ” The emotions attributed to each of these characters are translated into postures, gestures, and facial expressions. ”16 Personally, I believe this arrangement both reveals the logical connectedness of the scene and enriches its meaning.