A silhouette, such as the one above of the Camsie family of O’Harrabrook, Co Antrim, by Augustin Edouart (1838), were an affordable alternative to a painted portrait. Striking and distinctive, ...

This semester, students in the course African Americans and Art have been captivated by the silhouette artist Moses Williams (1777-c. 1825), a Black man enslaved by one of the foremost painters of the ...

The leather-silhouette show can be dated back to the West Han Dynasty about 2,000 years ago. It is also known as the sheep skin play, head play and shadow play. It originated in Shaanxi, northwest ...

Male silhouettes were classified as male 83.3 percent of the time and female silhouettes were classified as female 55.7 percent of the time.