Monday 12 March 2007

Textures



What is texture?

The property of a material's individual crystallites having nonrandom
orientation...The tactile quality of a surface or the representation or invention of the appearance of such a surface quality...In a photographic image the frequency of change and arrangement of tones...Both the tactile surface of an artwork itself and the visual illusion of tactile surfaces within an artwork...The visual and tactile quality of the surface of an object, revealed in a photograph by variances in tone, depth and shape...A perceptible pattern or structure, even if random in nature...An element of art which refers to how a surface feels or looks like it would feel.



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