Evolving from figures outlined in black on ancient Greek pottery, to scenes and portraits cut out of black paper, silhouettes became especially popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, along with shadow puppets used for theatrical performances.
The center of one large portrait was cut out.
Vines get the bottom of their portrait shape cut off by #waywire's landscape player, and there appeared to be no way to add existing videos you'd shared to a specific wire.
140 oval woodburytype portraits were cut and pasted into the front of Shadbolt's two volume set, with biographical details following.
Except for a series of close-up portraits that cut his subjects' heads off at the forehead, and another, stranger suite of overripe nudes, his subjects were usually shown whole, apparently enjoying a splendid isolation from the real world.
When Mr. Weiner and the "Mad Men" promotional team began thinking last year about their hopes for an ad aesthetic as the show approached its last two years, someone took one of Mr. Glaser's best-known images, a 1966 Bob Dylan poster inspired by a Duchamp silhouette self-portrait, and cut out the psychedelic flowing hair with which Mr. Glaser had crowned Mr. Dylan.
If the work sometimes seems a little arch, it is more than offset by a 2005 self-portrait, "Diagnosis/Surgery Cut," in which her brooding, unsmiling face, with black eyes and heavy dark brows looming large against a background of red floral wallpaper, stares intently at the viewer as if to assert its own continuity.
The rest of him, in order to make the death portrait, had been cut away.
With startling economy, Villeneuve conjures a snapshot portrait of motherhood cut short by a daughter's death; love and despair described with surgical precision.
Nothing in his writing style or our correspondence suggested such a portrait, it was cut out of whole cloth, probably based on something as random as someone from my distant past with a similar name.
