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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Silhouette: The Art of the Shadow

In his book The English Face, the late Sir David Piper asserts that a silhouette "is not reall a portrait at all; in its basic form it is made by tracing the shadow-- it is not merely a portrait of one's shadow, it is virtually the actual shadow, stilled and fixed on paper.











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