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Texture and Pattern
Elements of Design
Definition
The surface quality of objects
All surfaces have texture.
Two Categories of
Texture
Texture may be physical as in the
roughness of burlap.
It may be purely visual.
Even when we do not actually feel
an object, our memory provides the sensory reaction of touch.
Other Vocabulary
Trompe l’oeil: Literally a
"trick of the eye."
A technique that copies nature
with such detail that the depiction can be mistaken for real forms.
Papier collé:
A visual and tactile technique in
which scraps of paper having various textures are pasted to the picture
surface to enrich or embellish areas.
Architecture
Texture in architecture today is a
basic concern.
Texture and Pattern
Because texture is interpreted by
light and darks, there is a fine line between texture and pattern.
Pattern usually suggests
repetition, sometimes random and sometimes controlled.
Psychological Factors
Textures may be pleasant or
unpleasant.
Textures have associative or
symbolic meanings:
A person can be as slippery as a
snake.
Roughneck or just rough
Skin can be as smooth as silk.
We have tactile memory.
Glass, cotton, concrete, slime
Smooth
Soft
Other Texture Words
Pattern
Any artistic design (sometimes
serving as a model of imitation).
Compositions with repeated elements
and or designs which most often are varied, and produce interconnections and
obvious directional movements.
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