sfai painting select student art variety of texture
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Texture and SurfaceSelect Student and Master Work
San Francisco Art Institute Intermediate/Advanced Painting
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor
The most common marks in caves are ‘fluting’ – or what anthropologists call ‘macaroni’ – people dragged their fingers through the soft limestone for the pleasure of leaving their mark and feeling connected to the earth
In contemporary painting, texture can be thin or very thick – even if you can’t touch it, you can imagine what it would feel like.
Manuel Neri 1985
Part of the pleasure of viewing paintings is to get very close, so you can see the tiniest texture as the paint drags across the weave of the canvas(John Singer Sargent)
Texture can create a ‘sub-text’ of meaning. Here, for example, the face is deformed brutally yet the paint is applied with delicate and sponged marks.(Francis Bacon)
This is an ink drawing which is completely flat to the touch, yet the marks create the illusion of texture in the mind’s eye.(Rico Lebrun ink on paper)
Scraping with a painting knife or the handle of a brush while the paint is still wet can reveal a contrasting color underneath.(Arnoldo Roche)
This painting has sand mixed into the paint which adds a ‘gritty’ texture both to the paint and to the meaning of this ‘funereal rite.’ (David Miller)