Silhouette

SILHOUETTE at PEER SOHAWA, ISLAMABAD

Silhouette

the image of a person, an object or scene consisting of the outline and a featureless interior, with the silhouetted object usually being black. Traditionally, a silhouette is a form of artwork, the term originating in the 18th century and applied to portraits or other pictorial representations cut from thin black card.^[1] Silhouette images may be created in any artistic media, but the tradition of cutting portraits from black card has continued into the 21st century.