HUMS

• Medium (in art)


  The material used to create artwork
• Visual arts


  Arts whose mediums can be seen and which occupy space
• Common visual arts

  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Architecture
• Two-dimensional arts


  • Paintings
  • Drawing
  • Printmaking
  • Photography
• Three-dimensional arts


  • Sculptures
  • Architecture
  • Landscape
  • Community planning
  • Industrial designs
  • Ceramics
  • Furniture
• Painting


  The process of applying pigment on a smooth surface
• Pigment


  The part of the painting that supplies the color
• Binder


  A type of substance that holds the pigment of paint in place after the paint dries
• Encaustic


  The application of a mixture of hot beeswax, resin and ground pigment on a porous surface
• Encaustic painting

  • A Painting by Edward Fielding
  • Autumn Leaf by Mitzi Humphrey
• Tempera


  Earth or mineral pigments mixed with egg yolk and egg white
• Fresco


  The application of earth pigments mixed with water on a plaster wall while the plaster is damp
• Watercolor


  A tempered paint made of pure ground pigment bound with gum Arabic
• Gouache


  A painting technique in which a gum or an opaque white pigment is added to watercolors to produce opacity
• Oil painting


  Pigment ground in linseed oil applied to primed canvas
• Acrylic


  A synthetic paint using acrylic polymer emulsion as binder
• Sculpture


  A three-dimensional form constructed to represent or imaginary shape
• Types of sculpture

  • Free-standing sculpture
  • Bas relief
  • High relief
  • Mobile sculpture
• Sculpture techniques

  • Carving
  • Assembling
  • Modeling
  • Casting
• Carving


  Cutting or chipping away a shape from a mass of stone, wood, or other hard material
• Modeling


  Creating a form by building up a soft or malleable material (such as clay)
• Casting


  Making sculptures from a material that is melted down, usually a metal, and then poured into a mold
• Assembling


  Gathering and joining different materials to create a sculpture
• Fabrication


  An additive process that uses scrap metals and welding to create a sculpture
• Diamond


  The hardest natural material in the world, typically about 99.95 percent carbon
• Common sedimentary rocks


  • Sandstone
  • Limestone
  • Shale
• Metamorphic rocks


  Rocks formed when subjected to high heat, high pressure, or hot mineral-rich fluids
• Igneous rocks


  Rocks formed from the cooling and solidification of molten (melted) rock
• Anthropic rock


  Rock that is made, modified and moved by humans
• Examples of stone types

  • Granite
  • Basalt
  • Marble
  • Jade
• Softwood


  Lightweight, porous wood that ranges in hardness from balsa to pine
• Hardwood


  Denser woods like oak, walnut, mahogany, ebony, teak, narra and dao
• Ivory


  Intrinsically beautiful material from the tusks of elephants and wild boar, easy to carve
• Metal


  Possesses tensile strength, ductility and malleability, resists breakage
• Plastics


  Durable substances transformed by chemical processes from organic materials
• Abstract art


  Art that does not show the subject as an objective reality, but only the artist's idea or feelings about it
• Kinds of abstract art

  • Distortion
  • Elongation
  • Mangling
  • Cubism
  • Abstract Expressionism
• Geometric abstraction


  Abstract art based on the use of geometric forms in non-objective compositions
• Pointillism


  A technique of neo-impressionist painting using tiny dots of various pure colors
• Realism art


  A visual art style that depicts the actuality of what the eyes can see