As the name indicates, the figures on these vases were black silhouettes set against the color of the clay ... while red sometimes picked out the hair of other human figures or the manes of horses (5) ...

Since the very earliest art forms, artists have been compelled to depict the human figure ... kneels in reverence to a Black figure who fills the empty silhouette. Barbara Walker’s drawings ...

Twenty black figures, black foam core and hardware ... McNeil, Jr. In the early 19th century, artisans created silhouettes of Americans of every social stratum, from enslaved people to presidents.

Near this harrowing text is a large single-figure silhouette, Cut, a work that can only be a self-portrait. It depicts a black girl in ... that “the human soul must suffer its own disintegration ...

There’s something profoundly essential and revealing in Julian Opie’s handling of the human figure ... into a basic silhouette formed with just a few graphic lines. His figures, as if ...

John Ross was "the Silhouette Man" of Luna Park, an American-born showman who became one of the best-known human faces at ... was a pair of scissors and a black card. Now, for the first time ...