Vocab of the day : Silhouette

Balloon Debate, Banksy

Silhouette

sil-oo-et

noun

• a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a famous person’s face.
• also used in fashion design to describe the shape or outline of a garment.

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” Painted totally in black, as if a silhouette or shadow, Balloon Debate shows a young girl, hoping for the other side but only able to do so by letting balloons take her away. Again, Banksy uses a child to depict innocence against the true hostility of the area and what the wall came from. “

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Resource : http://banksyworld.blogspot.com/