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  2. Moses Williams (artist) - Wikipedia

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    Moses Williams was born in about 1777 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Scarborough and Lucy Peale, who were enslaved by renowned artist and museum-owner Charles Willson Peale. [1] It is believed that Williams's parents began to work for Peale sometime between 1769 and 1775. [1] In 1786, Peale manumitted Williams's parents, and Williams's ...

  3. Cameo (carving) - Wikipedia

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    Cameo (/ ˈkæmioʊ /) is a method of carving an object such as an engraved gem, item of jewellery or vessel. It nearly always features a raised (positive) relief image; contrast with intaglio, which has a negative image. [1] Originally, and still in discussing historical work, cameo only referred to works where the relief image was of a ...

  4. Silhouette - Wikipedia

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    The silhouette differs from an outline, which depicts the edge of an object in a linear form, while a silhouette appears as a solid shape. Silhouette images may be created in any visual artistic medium, [2] but were first used to describe pieces of cut paper, which were then stuck to a backing in a contrasting colour, and often framed.

  5. Cameo glass - Wikipedia

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    Cameo glass is a luxury form of glass art produced by cameo glass engraving or etching and carving through fused layers of differently colored glass to produce designs, usually with white opaque glass figures and motifs on a dark-colored background. The technique is first seen in ancient Roman art of about 30 BC, where it was an alternative to ...

  6. List of cameo appearances by Alfred Hitchcock - Wikipedia

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    This cameo is 19 seconds long. Dial M for Murder: 1954 0:13:13 On the left side in the class-reunion photo sitting at the same table near Swan and Wendice. Easy Virtue: 1928 0:21:15 Walking past a tennis court carrying a walking stick. Family Plot: 1976 0:40:00 In silhouette through the door of the Registrar of Births and Deaths. Foreign ...

  7. Papercutting - Wikipedia

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    A silhouette of Goethe (1778). Paper-cut art appeared during the Jin dynasty in 4th century AD after the Chinese official Cai Lun invented paper in 105 AD. [1] The oldest surviving paper cutout is a symmetrical circle from the 6th-century Six Dynasties period, found in Xinjiang, China.

  8. Scherenschnitte - Wikipedia

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    Scherenschnitte (German pronunciation: [ˈʃeːʁənˌʃnɪtə]), which means "scissor cuts" in German, is the art of paper cutting design. The artwork often has rotational symmetry within the design, and common forms include silhouettes, valentines, and love letters. The art tradition was founded in Switzerland and Germany in the 16th century ...

  9. Lotte Reiniger - Wikipedia

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    Lotte Reiniger was born in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin on 2 June 1899 to Carl Reiniger and Eleonore Lina Wilhelmine Rakette. [4] Here, she studied at Charlottenburger Waldschule, the first open-air school, where she learned the art of scherenschnitte, the German art of silhouette, inspired by the ancient Chinese art of paper cutting and silhouette puppetry. [5]

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