The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Celebrate the Day of the Girl with Gustav Klimt’s boldly silhouetted portrait of Mäda Primavesi. http://met.org/2di0bVs

Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862–1918) | Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000) | 1912

Most of the period rooms will have touch screens so that visitors can learn more about a piece of furniture or an object. Rather than getting a full image of what is selected, however, only a silhouette will appear.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silhouette
剪影（法語：silhouette）是一種將人事物以單色描繪（以黑色為主），凸顯輪廓的藝術圖像，或指剪影藝術本身，可屬一種視覺藝術，剪影被運用在各種方面。The word silhouette is derived from the name of Étienne de Silhouette, a French finance minister who, in 1759, was forced by France's credit crisis during the Seven Years' War to impose severe economic demands upon the French people, particularly the wealthy.^[2]Because of de Silhouette's austere economies, his name became synonymous with anything done or made cheaply and so with these outline portraits.^[3][4] Prior to the advent of photography, silhouette profiles cut from black card were the cheapest way of recording a person's appearance.^[5][6]

The term silhouette, although existing from the 18th century, was not applied to the art of portrait-making until the 19th century. In the 18th and early 19th century, “profiles” or “shades” as they were called were made by one of three methods:

1. painted on ivory, plaster, paper, card, or in reverse on glass;
2. “hollow-cut” where the negative image was traced and then cut away from light colored paper which was then laid atop a dark background; and
3. “cut and paste” where the figure was cut out of dark paper (usually free-hand) and then pasted onto a light background.^[1]

sil・hou・ette

 ━━ n., vt. シルエット（に描く）, 影絵; 輪郭.

 in silhouette　シルエットで.