Sunday, 12 April 2009

Clevedon outing......


Silhouette



From Wiki:
Silhouette is a view of an object or scene consisting of the outline and a featureless interior, with silhouetted object usually being black. The term was initially applied in the 18th century to portraits or other pictorial representations cut from thin black card.
The term used been extended to describe the sight or image person, object or scene that is backlit, and appears dark against a lighter background. Because a silhouette emphasizes the outline, the word has also been used in the fields of fashion and fitness to describe the shape of a person's body or the shape created by wearing clothing of a particular style or period.
Silhouette images may be created in any artistic media, but the tradition of cutting portraits from black card has continued into the 21st century.

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