tactile

Examples of tactile in the following topics:

• Texture

  • Texture refers to the tactile quality of the surface of an art object.
  • Texture in art stimulates the senses of sight and touch and refers to the tactile quality of the surface of the art.

• Art and Illusion

  • Tactile illusions are illusions that exploit the sense of touch.
  • Some tactile illusions require active touch (such as the movement of the fingers or hands), whereas others can be evoked passively (for example, with external stimuli that press against the skin).
  • One of the best known passive tactile illusions is the cutaneous rabit illusion, in which a sequence of taps at two separated skin locations results in the perception that intervening skin regions were also tapped.

• Post-Painterly Abstraction

  • Examples of Post-Painterly Abstractionists include Hard-Edged Painters such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella who explored relationships between tightly-ruled shapes and edges, and Color-Field Painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis , who explored the tactile and optical aspects of large, open fields of pure color.

• Emphasis

  • Texture is the quality of a surface, often corresponding to its tactile character, or what may be sensed by touch.

• Rembrandt

  • Stylistically, Rembrandt's paintings progressed from the early "smooth" manner, characterized by fine technique in the portrayal of illusionistic form, to the late "rough" treatment of richly variegated paint surfaces, which allowed for an illusionism of form suggested by the tactile quality of the paint itself.