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SILHOUETTE
Kenny G. Silhouette
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Silhouette, outline image, especially a profile
drawing solidly filled in or a cutout pasted
against a lighter background. It was named for
Étienne de Silhouette (170967), who was the
finance minister to Louis XV it is said that he
was so noted for his stinginess that cheap
articles, including portraits, were designated à
la Silhouette. Drawings in silhouette became very
popular in Europe during the last decades of the
18th cent. and replaced miniature paintings at
French and German courts. In England and America
profile portraitists proliferated in the 19th
cent. and numerous magazine and book
illustrators, e.g., Arthur Rackham, employed
silhouettes, or, as they were called in England,
shades. Their popularity was fostered by the
interest in Lavater's science of physiognomy and
by the strong interest in classical art,
especially in Greek black-figure vase painting.
Silhouette drawings decreased in popularity after
the invention of the daguerreotype.
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T H E E N D
August 06,2009
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