Texture in Art

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Texture in an artwork may be ______or _______.

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Actual or Implied

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The element of art that refers to how things feel or look as if they might feel, if touched.

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texture

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A method of producing textures by placing paper over objects that have raised surfaces and rubbing the paper with graphite, wax, or crayon.

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frottage

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An artwork created by pasting cut or torn materials such as paper, photographs, and fabric to a flat surface.

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collage

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The illusion of a three-dimensional surface.

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implied texture

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Which of these is a good reason to use Texture in your artwork? to abstract reality, to make a border, to create interest

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to create interest

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This type of texture is completely made up and does not have to resemble any real surface qualities.

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invented

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This artist was famous for his use of texture in paintings because he would sometimes squeeze the paint from the tube directly to the canvas, and he often put sand in his paint.

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Vincent van Gogh

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This artist was known for replacing actual textures with patterns even though he could have easily implied the actual texture of the objects.

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Pablo Picasso

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In this painting by Gustav Klimt, spirals, circles, and rectangles within squares are used. In class, we talked about replacing real texture with these types of things. It's called using what in place of real or implied textures?

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patterns