The phrase
"grainy quality" refers to a visual or audio characteristic that appears rough, textured, or pixelated, usually due to small particles or noise.
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While large (I measured it at four and a half inches wide by three and a half deep) the texture has an
unpleasant grainy quality.
In a 2003 interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, reprinted in the Tate exhibition's catalog (which also reprints an interview that I did with Jonas last year), she recalls how «that
grainy quality of early video was so strange, even otherworldly.
It may sound flighty, but maybe there is a aesthetic feeling to
such grainy quality, that this is the best that money can get, this is as far as material can go on such a cheaply made film.
It gives it that
grainy quality that makes everything look a little more distressed and feels a little more authentic and real.
There is a satisfyingly amateur sense to
the grainy quality of the shaky video, the sense of a kind of impromptu experiment.
The images have
a grainy quality reminiscent of black and white photography, film stills, Xerox copies or microfiche, created as Nazzaro delves into the possibilities of painting.
Gradient performance is acceptable, but there is
a grainy quality to the extreme dark edges of the test image.