Texture in Art

Question 1

What are the types of textures in art?

Answer 1

1. Physical Texture
2. Visual Texture
3. Surface Texture

Question 2

A painting technique for softening the transition between colours.

Answer 2

Sfumato Technique

Question 3

Artists who use the sfumato technique

Answer 3

Leonardo da Vinci and Giorgione’s “Youth Holding an Arrow”

Question 4

A painting technique wherein paint is thickly laid on a surface, so that brushstrokes or palette knife marks are visible.

Answer 4

Impasto Technique

Question 5

Artists who use the impasto technique

Answer 5

• “14 July 2014” by Lynn Bogges
• Vincent Van Gogh’s “In Noon”
• Vincent van Gogh’s
  Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear
• Claude Monet’s Rouen Cathedral Paintings

Question 6

A drawing technique in which areas of light and shadow are created using nothing but dots.

Answer 6

Stippling