Printmaking
Photography
Cinema and Digital Arts
Sculpture
Architecture
100
This term describes any printmaking technique in which lines and areas to be inked are recessed below the surface of the plate.
What is intaglio?
100
This early photographic process, introduced by Louis Daguerre in 1839, produced a one-of-a-kind image on a silvered copper plate.
What is the daguerreotype?
100
This phenomenon of human perception — where the brain blends a rapid sequence of still images into continuous motion — is what makes cinema possible.
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What is persistence of vision?
100
Sculpture that can be viewed from all sides, fully detached from any background, is described using this term.
What is freestanding sculpture (sculpture in the round)?
100
This basic structural system uses two upright supports holding up a horizontal beam across the top.
What is post-and-lintel construction?
200
This relief printmaking process involves cutting away negative space from a block, leaving raised areas to hold ink — the oldest printmaking technique.
What is a woodcut?
200
Photographers like Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis used this approach to document social conditions and drive reform.
What is social documentary (or social change) photography?
200
This design field creates animated titles, transitions, and graphics, often seen in film credits and broadcast graphics.
What is motion graphics?
200
Sculpture that projects from a flat background but remains physically attached to it is called this.
What is relief sculpture?
200
This curved structure, built from wedge-shaped blocks, spans an opening and redirects weight outward and downward to its supports.
What is an arch?
300
This intaglio process uses a needle to scratch directly into a metal plate, raising a ridge called a "burr" that catches extra ink for a soft, fuzzy line.
What is drypoint?
300
In traditional film photography, this is the reversed-value image — light where the scene was dark — that's used to print a positive photograph.
What is a negative?
300
This field of digital design focuses on how users engage with software, apps, or websites, where the user's actions shape the outcome.
What is interactive design?
300
This additive sculptural method involves building up a form by shaping a soft, pliable material like clay or wax.
What is modeling?
300
Essentially a rotated series of arches, this self-supporting curved structure allows for large open interior spaces, famously seen in Rome's Pantheon.
What is a dome?
400
This planographic technique is based on the natural repulsion between oil and water, using a greasy crayon or tusche on a stone or metal plate.
What is lithography?
400
This shift from chemical processes to sensors, editing software, and pixel-based images transformed photography starting in the late 20th century.
What is the digital revolution (digital photography)?
400
Historically produced frame-by-frame using hand-drawn or painted cels, as in classic Disney films, this technique creates the illusion of movement from still images.
What is (traditional/cel) animation?
400
This sculptural process reproduces a form by pouring a liquid material, such as molten bronze, into a mold.
What is casting?
400
This construction method uses a metal skeleton to bear a building's weight, freeing up walls and enabling much taller structures like skyscrapers.
What is steel-frame (skeleton-frame) construction?
500
This technique pushes ink through a fine mesh stencil and was popularized commercially before artists like Andy Warhol used it for fine art.
What is screenprinting (serigraphy)?
500
This early color photography process, patented in France in 1903, used dyed potato starch grains on a glass plate.
What is autochrome?
500
This term for computer-generated imagery is widely used in modern filmmaking to create effects and characters impossible to film practically.
What is CGI (computer-generated imagery)?
500
This subtractive method involves removing material from a solid mass, such as stone or wood, to reveal a form.
What is carving?
500
Architect Louis Sullivan coined this famous principle, holding that a building's design should be dictated primarily by its intended use.
What is "form follows function"?