Emphasis gets your attention. More information on Gene Davis. More information on Henry Rasmusen. Emil Zyrakchi, Dissonance , c. 1965, Oil on canvas, Gift of Bernard Kripkee and Roa Lynn, Acc. Both of these paintings are non-objective but they are opposites in many elements of art.
Visual texture is an illusion of a texture.
Sometimes artists paint the canvas to look smooth or rough. Shapes can be geometric like a triangle, circle, or square, or organic like a leaf, a dog, or spilled milk. The Vasarely print on the left has all geometric shapes. Blue, green, and violet remind you of cool things like ice and grass, so they are called cool colors. Red, orange, and yellow are the colors of fire and the sun.