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- "Butades, a potter of Sicyon, was the first who invented, at Corinth, the art of modelling portraits in the earth which he used in his trade.
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Leading silhouette artists of the second half of the 18th century and the early 19th century, the golden age of the art, included Francis Torond, A. Charles, John Miers, C. Rosenburg, Mrs. Brown, Auguste Edouart, T. Hamlet, and Mrs. Beetham (née Isabella Robinson).
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In England, the best known silhouette artist, a painter not a cutter, was John Miers, who travelled and worked in different cities, but had a studio on the Strand in London. [16] He advertised "three minute sittings", [ 17 ] and the cost might be as low as half a crown around 1800.
Nov 21, 2023 · To make a silhouette, the artist first drew the person's outline in profile.This step was sometimes free-hand or the artist could use machines to speed up the process.
- Kumi Yamashita
- Kristi Malakoff
- Kara Walker
- William Kentridge
- Camille Utterback
The Japanese-born New York-based artist, Kumi Yamashita has been working with shadow play since the 1990s. After receiving her Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Cornish College of the Arts in Washington, she went on to do her Masters in Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art. Following this, she began experimenting with silhouettes and developed her se...
Canadian artist Kristi Malakoff has received acclaimed reviews for her silhouettes of people. Most notably, her 18-foot-tall Maibaum (2009), a paper and foam core installation, has been recognized as a major work in the field of silhouette art. Malakoff’s life-like piece depicts 20 paper sculptures of children dancing around a Maypole. Unlike tradi...
Kara Walker is one of the most well-known contemporary silhouette artists. After studying for a degree in Fine Arts at the Atlanta College of Art, she took her Masters in Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has gained a lot of attention for her panoramic silhouettes of plantation life and African history in the United States. Primar...
South African artistWilliam Kentridge is another prominent figure in the field of silhouettes art. Although working with a range of media from drawing to printmaking, film to murals, during the early 2000s he began working with silhouettes. In 2000, Kentridge produced a series of tapestries and paper collages, including the renowned Collage on Levi...
American installation artist Camille Utterback merges painting and interactive art to produce her ground-breaking silhouette installations. Like Malakoff, she produced a piece for the National Portrait Gallery’s Black Out exhibition. Entitled Precarious (2018), the ground-breaking piece brings coding and computer software into silhouettes art, cata...
Charles Burns is an artist who specialises in silhouettes. Ahead of our Valentine's Day Seduction Late, he shares the history of this fascinating art form. In the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries silhouettes, then known as “shades”, were at the peak of their popularity.
Isabella developed a talent for making silhouette portraits, first called profiles and shades, which are a solid outline of an image. Initially, Beetham made the portraits by cutting the images on card and paper.
Apr 23, 2018 · His first silhouette patron was the portly Bishop of Bangor. The bishop was so impressed by Edouart’s skills he ordered 40 copies even though Edouart charged 5 shillings for each silhouette versus the one shilling normally paid for lesser quality silhouettes.
