What is Texture?

Texture refers to the surface quality in a work of art. It can be the actual surface feel of an area or the simulated or implied appearance of roughness or smoothness. It is a tactile experience.

How would you describe these different textures?

Textures may be actual or simulated. Actual textures can be felt with the fingers, while simulated textures are suggested by an artist in the painting of different areas of a picture -- often in representing drapery, metals, rocks, hair, etc. Words describing textures include: flat, smooth (third row, right), shiny, glossy, glittery, velvety, feathery, soft, wet, gooey, furry, sandy, leathery (second row, right), crackled (upper left), prickly, abrasive, rough (first row, right), furry, bumpy, corrugated (second row, left), puffy (second row, third), rusty (third row, second), and slimy (third row, third).

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Types of Texture

1. Tactile or Actual Texture Texture that can be seen and felt. You can actually feel the texture with your hand. Tactile texture is actual and touchable, as with a surface This texture might be achieved by using thick paint, using layers of paint, using collage, adding objects to the paint etc.

2. Visual or Implied Texture The copying, or imitation, of object surfaces Texture that you can only seen but not felt. It is the illusion of actual texture. By using particular techniques in art a surface can be made to look textured even though it feels smooth. Visual texture is an apparent or simulated surface, read by the eyes.

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Famous Filipino Painters and Sculptors and their StylesArt styles describe the way the artwork looks. Style is basically the manner in which the artist portrays his or her subject matter and how the artist expresses his or her vision. Style is determined by the characteristics that describe the artwork, such as the way the artist employs form, color, and composition, to name just a few.

How do you feel while looking at art? What do you think were the artists feeling when the paintings were made? Do artists have the same style?Study closely the artworks of famous Filipino painters and sculptors below.

1. Realistic or Representational ArtArtwork that shows the exact appearance of shape, color, and texture found in the original subject. Objects look real, true to life structures. They are rendered, painted, sculpted and/or depicted to look just like their subjects

2. Abstract Art or Non Realistic ArtArtwork that does not show the exact appearance or similarity with the original subject, although it also has lines shapes, colors and textures You can’t recognize the objects, they look not real.

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Fernando Amorsolo, Afternoon Meal Under the Mango Tree, 1961

Carlos V. Francisco, First Mass

Guilermo Tolentino, Andres Bonifacio Monument

Jose T. Joya, Zen Garden, 1977

H. R. Ocampo, "A Song for Yevtushenko", 1973 Napoleon Abueva

Transfiguration