The trees, however, were bare, creating dark, bleak silhouettes against an anaemic winter sky.
Her portrait of a solitary Bridgehampton beech tree, its bare branches silhouetted against a bleached-out sky, dramatically emphasizes the tree's structure while subtly conveying the almost fleshy texture of its trunk.
There's a lot to read and look at before we even get to Büttner's large woodcuts – a bare black silhouette of a hill, jaunty potatoes floating in a field of colour, a number of simplified images of a beggar, a body humped over, arms extended in supplication.
The influence of John Cage and Hanne Darboven is unmistakable in the eight triptychs that make up "Walnut Tree Orchard," begun in 1975, in which Gaines translated pictures of bare saplings into silhouettes of numbers, then overlaid each new grid of digits on the previous ones to create a thrumming numerical grove.
"All of these guys that are in 65 galleries, some gallery gave them their start". As a child in Indiana, McDaniel found herself captivated by the notion of silhouettes — bare tree branches during winter, the landscape during sunset.
Wearing shades of red, white and black, with plunging necklines, form-fitting silhouettes, bare midriffs and one very fancy blazer, the most notable guests seemed to almost coordinate with one another on the carpet.
I let him out and we walked up onto the hill that overlooks the barn, the bare maples in silhouette against the barn lights and the falling snow.
And by some method many marks are negative, almost nothing but silhouettes of bare linen, ghosts of gestures, defined by the surrounding hues.
I peeked my head inside one of the rooms and saw a couple of silhouettes sleeping on bare mattresses lining the floor.
Simple A-line silhouettes?
