Texture Handout

A&D 113: Basic Drawing
Texture - the visual "feel" of a drawing.
Actual texture - a texture that is literally tactile, a quality we could experience through touch.
Anselm Kiefer
Hannah Höch
Frank Auerbach
Allison Schulnik
Invented texture - a form of visual texture that has been created without reference to perceptual reality.
Ben Tolman
William Kentridge
Susan Rothenberg
Arnulf Rainer
Simulated texture - a texture drawn to look like the real thing, creating the illusion of actual texture.
Hong Chun Zhang
Charles Sheeler
Huguette Despault May
Lucian Freud
Trompe l'oeil - A French term meaning "trick the eye." Sometimes called illusionism, is a style of
painting or drawing which gives the appearance of three-dimensional, or photographic realism.
M.C. Escher
Paul Cadmus