18 - Visual Texture

Visual texture is the illuison of surface texture. Something looks like it has texture but really  it does not. Trompe l'oeil which is basically deceptive painting.

Because of the way that the artist painted the wall, the painting is given visual texture.Due to the variation of color and brush strokes it gives the painting depth and looks as if the surface is rough. also the attention to detail paid on the wooded shelf it also adds to the visual texture.