Texture

• Texture is the surface quality of a material that can be experienced through touch or perceived through vision
• Texture is produced by natural and manmade forces
• Texture can be a visual element through the artist's manipulation of materials and medium
• Texture is tactile and visual
• Types of texture:

  • Actual Texture:
  • The "real thing"
  • Can be natural (e.g., apples and pumpkins) or artificial (e.g., relief and impasto paintings)
  • Simulated Texture:
  • A surface character that looks real but is not and said to be simulated
  • Skillfully reproduced in the artist's medium that they are often mistaken for the surfaces of real objects
  • Abstract Texture:
  • Simplified texture
  • Invented Texture:
  • Textures without precedent, they neither simulate nor are they abstracted from reality
  • Purely the imagination of the artist
  • Example: aliens and monsters in sci-fi