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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Art Word of the Day: Voussoirs
Term: 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…
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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Music Word of the Day: Russian bassoon
Term: 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…
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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Art Word of the Day: Teaspoon
Term: 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…
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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Art Word of the Day: Riffler
Term: 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…
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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Art Word of the Day: Aqueous
Term: 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…
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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Art Word of the Day: Index
Term: 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…
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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Art Word of the Day: Obscene
Term: 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…
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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Art Word of the Day: Canvas
Term: 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…
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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Art Word of the Day: Decadent art
Term: 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…
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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Art Word of the Day: Mail art
Term: 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…
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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Music Word of the Day: Se
Term: 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…
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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Art Word of the Day: Achieve achievement
Term: 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…
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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Art Word of the Day: Tracing
Term: 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…
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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Art Word of the Day: Binder
Term: 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…
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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Music Word of the Day: Guard mounting
Term: 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…
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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Art Word of the Day: Sevres porcelain sevres porcelain factory
Term: 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…
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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Music Word of the Day: Alto horn
Term: 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…
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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Art Word of the Day: Lumiere technology
Term: Lumiere technology Definition: A multi-spectral digitization technology, it derives from a camera developed by the French photographer Pascal Cotte. This LT camera…
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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Art Word of the Day: Logan medal of the arts
Term: 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…
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artopium (66)in #steemit • 3 years ago
Art Word of the Day: Quatrefoilquatrefoil
Term: Quatrefoilquatrefoil Definition: An ornament, especially in architecture, having four lobes, or foils. In heraldry, a four-petaled flower.(pr. KAH-trə-foyl)Related…
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