BlogHide Resteemsartopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoWTF HAPPENED TO STEEMIT???It seems it's becoming more and more convoluted. How many hardforks have taken place since I've been gone? I'll even ask this question again: why is steem a blockchain? It's so centralized and…artopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoArt Word of the Day: VoussoirsTerm: Voussoirs Definition: The wedge-shaped stones which form the curved portions of an arch or a vaulted ceiling. (pr. voo-swahr')Related link: The illustrated article on voussoir in the…artopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoMusic Word of the Day: Russian bassoonTerm: Russian bassoon Definition: upright, now obsolete instrument with brass bellA form of serpent or bass horn with a U-shaped section of tube fashioned in a single piece of wood like the butt…artopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoArt Word of the Day: TeaspoonTerm: Teaspoon Definition: A unit of measure of both liquid and dry quantities that is equal to a third of a tablespoon. To convert teaspoons to ounces (US, fluid), multiply by 0.16667.…artopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoArt Word of the Day: RifflerTerm: Riffler Definition: A fine, small, usually double-edged and often rounded rasp. The riffler is used in delicate shaping and finishing of a carving. Rifflers are made for work in wood…artopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoArt Word of the Day: AqueousTerm: Aqueous Definition: Watery. Often used to designate pigmented media in which water is an ingredient in the vehicle, as in gouache, tempera, and watercolors. Such media are…artopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoArt Word of the Day: IndexTerm: Index Definition: A recording of an event produced by a connection between an object and its role in the event. In semiotics, as presented by Charles Sanders Peirce (American pragmatist…artopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoArt Word of the Day: ObsceneTerm: Obscene Definition: Offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty. Lewd. Or, more broadly, repulsive or offensive to the senses. Obscenity is the state or quality of being…artopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoArt Word of the Day: CanvasTerm: Canvas Definition: A heavy, woven fabric used for support for artwork, usually oil paintings, and considered desirable by painters because of the regular texture and flexibility. The…artopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoArt Word of the Day: Decadent artTerm: Decadent art Definition: A derogatory term for expressions of artists and writers of the Aesthetic Movement in England in the last two decades of the 19th Century, it was directed against…artopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoArt Word of the Day: Mail artTerm: Mail art Definition: Small-scale art whose senders used the U.S. Mail for distribution, it consists of envelopes that are drawn or painted on or contain collages or the like, on which…artopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoMusic Word of the Day: SeTerm: Se Definition: In solfeggio, Se is the lowered fifth, indicating the seventh tone of the descending chromatic scale. In the " fixed Do " system, Se is always G-flat. Music Word of…artopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoArt Word of the Day: Achieve achievementTerm: Achieve achievement Definition: To achieve is to accomplish; to perform with success; to attain with effort or despite difficulty. Achievement is either the act of accomplishing or the…artopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoArt Word of the Day: TracingTerm: Tracing Definition: Making a drawing by referring to an image visible underneath it. Tracing paper is made translucent for this purpose. While artists sometimes use tracing simply as a…artopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoArt Word of the Day: BinderTerm: Binder Definition: A substance mixed with pigment, it holds raw pigment in such a way that it becomes workable in a painting medium. Its purpose is to weld the pigment granules into some…artopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoMusic Word of the Day: Guard mountingTerm: Guard mounting Definition: A military bugle call, in the category of warning calls, played to signal a warning that the guard is about to be assembled for guard mount.Play Guard Mounting…artopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoArt Word of the Day: Sevres porcelain sevres porcelain factoryTerm: Sevres porcelain sevres porcelain factory Definition: Named for a French word for paste, both hard and soft, Sevres Porcelain was made from 1756, first at Vincennes and then at the royal…artopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoMusic Word of the Day: Alto hornTerm: Alto horn Definition: A small valved Brass instrument in the key of E -flat related to various members of the brass family. Rarely used in modern ensembles as it was replaced by other…artopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoArt Word of the Day: Lumiere technologyTerm: Lumiere technology Definition: A multi-spectral digitization technology, it derives from a camera developed by the French photographer Pascal Cotte. This LT camera projects a ray of light…artopium (66)in steemit • 5 years agoArt Word of the Day: Logan medal of the artsTerm: Logan medal of the arts Definition: Named for Jsephine Hancock Logan, founder of the Society for Sanity in Art, it is awarded to exhibiting members of the Society of Western Art, a branch…
