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A man takes the place of Lisa del Giocondo in the Mona Lisa using a photo stand-in The back of a photo stand-in. A photo stand-in (also called a face-in-hole, face in the hole board, or photo cutout board) is a large board with an image printed on it and that has one or more holes cut out where people can stick their face through the board for humorous effect. [1]
The origin of Jewish paper cutting is unclear. Ashkenazi Jews in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries practiced this type of art. However, Jewish paper cuts can be traced to Jewish communities in Syria, Iraq, and North Africa, and the similarity in the cutting techniques (using a knife) between East European Jews and Chinese paper cutters, may indicate that the origin goes back even further.
Many museums have laser-cut acrylic puzzles made of some of their art so visiting children can assemble puzzles of the images on display. Acrylic pieces are very durable, waterproof, and can withstand continued use without the image degrading. Also, because the print and cut patterns are computer-based, missing pieces can easily be remade.
Image credits: nflodin #6 My Shoes Crumbled Into Literal Powder On My Way To Work. Swipe through the pictures for reverse disintegration I guess. For context, these were relatively cheap off brand ...
Chinese paper-cutting originated from the practice of worship of both ancestors and gods, a traditional part of Chinese culture dating back roughly two millennia. According to archaeological records, paper-cutting originates from the 6th century, although some believe that its history could be traced back as far as the Warring States period (around 3 BC), long before paper was invented.
pdfimages is an open-source command-line utility for lossless extraction of images from PDF files, including JPEG2000 and JBIG2 format when used with option -all. [1] It is freely available as part of poppler-utils and xpdf-utils, and included in many Linux distributions. pdfimages originates from the xpdf package (but now part of poppler-utils).
Cut Piece boldly presents violence against women's bodies in the form of cut-out clothes. Most people define this as feminist performance art. But Ono remains ambiguous about it, almost entirely giving the viewer the responsibility and right to judge the work. Performing the piece made Ono famous, yet it sparked much controversy.
One of Ralph Beyer's Tablets of the Words in Coventry Cathedral. The plaque for the William Wordsworth Sesquicentenary, Rydal Mount, Cumbria, by John Shaw. Letter cutting is a form of inscriptional architectural lettering closely related to monumental masonry and stone carving, often practised by artists, sculptors, and typeface designers.