texture - sensations we get by touch and or vision

1. Actual Texture - materials used for art that already have noticeable textures 1993 Ida Alamuddin Overflow

assemblages - works assembled from 3D objects originally created for another purpose

local texture - the actual surface texture

2. Simulated Texture - the application of paint ink or pencil, etc. to invoke a visual textural response (visual texture) Leland Standley Allure 1999

collage - a 2D composition in which various found materials and or objects are glued onto a stiff backing

interpretive texture - depicting the essence of something's texture rather than only its superficial appearance

3. Built-up Media Brian Rutenberg Bright Land #1 2000

impasto - paint (with modeling paste, car putty, sand, etc.) applied so thickly that the brush strokes become integral parts of the finished work

4. Repetition of Design Elements - similar lines or shapes used repeatedly in a design often create a visual illusion of texture (esp. if they're small) Marcus Amerman Hopi Snake Priest 1999 (beadwork)

5. Type as Texture - textural effect resulting from the repetition of letters and numbers (this page has a visual texture, the linked page has textures resulting from type size, style and density) Cathy Yun of the J's Craig and Yee, at Cooper Union The Letter Aleph 1997

6. Prints of Textures

a. rubbing - placing a sheet of paper over a textured object and rubbing the surface of the paper with pencil, crayon, or similar medium. (effects: darker values and slightly raised paper surface where the raised areas were--also, the rubbing lines, provided they are similar, create a texture) Max Ernst Exhaustion(?) 1931

frottage - a technique (by Surrealist Max Ernst) where the rubbed impressions (of wood grain, rough fibers, etc.) are images that contain hidden visions

b. transfer - to print, impress, or otherwise copy (as a drawing or engraved design) from one surface to another sample

monotype - paint flat surface with ink, lay paper face down, rub back firmly with blunt object, forcing surplus ink off the original onto the paper

c. print - illusion of texture created by inking a textured surface and pressing it on to paper (wood grain of a woodcut, fingerprints, etc.) Francis Picabia, 391:18 cover July 1924 (zoom)

7. Erasure - visual texture created by the artist removing what has already been laid down Dianne Woods Piano 2000

8. Computer Textures - an virtually unlimited range of textural effects, please be selective and inventive

 

More Art:

Kurt Schwitters Kompozycja, 1921

Raushenburg Erased DeKooning Drawing 1953

Rauschenburg Bed 1955

Max Ernst Murdering Airplane 1920