The popularity of silhouettes in the 18th and 19th centuries wasn’t only due to them being an affordable form of portraiture before the era of photography, the art also fit with popular pseudosciences ...
Not so long ago, we equated silhouettes with grade-school art projects from the '60s or dusty relics unearthed from Grandma's attic. But lately, this centuries-old art form has emerged from the ...
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present “Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now,” opening May 11, as the first major museum exhibition to explore the art form of cut-paper profiles in ...