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Week 3 and 4 Discussion Texture_Art Orientation

Week 3 and 4 Discussion Texture_Art Orientation

Q 1. After looking at the works and taking into consideration their textures, please answer the following: • How would you describe the textures of each work of art? • What affect do the different textures have on the viewer? Or the message of the work? Ask yourself, why did the artist choose to use these textures in the work 2. Finally, find another work of art that you like and describe the use of texture in that work. Again, why do you think the artist of that work chose to use those textures?

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The first thought that the word texture brought to my mind is the fact that it creates ripples of reality which connected me to the work and made me feel for real the fabric of the cloth or the ridges created on the check because of their expressions. Both Mcihanelo’s Pieta and Rottgen Pieta encourages such feelings, but each of them has different kind of pain attached to it in my opinion. While Michelangelo makes it appear as more subtle and calmer, there is greater agony in Rottgen and the pain is more devastating. Perhaps the former artist wanted to put the focus on the detailing more than the aspect of the expression of agony and thus made it appear like Mary has accepted the reality and is sure that justice would be served.