Texture
Texture is how something would feel or looks like it would feel if it were touched.
A video about Texture
There are many different ways to create texture. Texture can be described as Real or Implied.
Real Texture
Implied Texture
Real Texture: The actual feeling of a surface that can be touched. Real texture can be created with any 2D or 3D work of art.
Real Texture in Sculpture:
Smooth:
Anish Kapoor, Cloud Gate (The Bean), 2004
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Soft:
Bumpy:
Lobi Culture, Jar with lid, mid 20th century
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Hard:
Auguste Rodin, Thought Emerging From Matter, 1895
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Real Texture in Painting:
Impasto is the technique of thickly applying paint to a surface. The impasto technique creates real texture by the way the paint is raised from the surface.
Vincent Van Gogh, Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889
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Implied Texture: Implied texture is sometimes called "visual texture" because it refers to the way a work of art looks like it would feel if what was drawn or painted could be touched. Think of a photograph of a tree; the tree has texture but if you touched the photograph the surface would be smooth. Artists create implied texture through the use of line and value.
Implied Texture in Drawing:
Samuel Silva, Ballpoint Pen Drawings, 2014
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Armin Mersmann, Eye Drawings, 2012
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Implied Texture in Painting:
Salvador Dali, Figura en una finestra, 1925
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Albrecht Dürer, Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher, 1526
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Implied Texture in Sculpture:
Riusuke Fukahori, 3D Goldfish Paintings, 1925
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Artists Using Texture
Meghan Shimek, Weaving, 2021
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Edo Culture, Head of an Oba, 18th Century
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