Vladimir Markov The Principles of Creativity in the Plastic [Visual] Arts: Faktura

We normally consider the faktura of painting as that surface condition of the painting as perceived by our eyes and senses. But, as indicated below, there is also an identical understanding of faktura in the fields of sculpture and architecture, and indeed in all the arts where some ‘noise’ is created by colours, sounds or other means, and where this is somehow perceived by our consciousness.