Show muster master of silhouette stirred by challen challenge e greg A agust 1 Kd do uart probably the he greatest t of cit all silhouette artists was the first to apply the term silhouette to human likeness cut from paper before ills time they had been called shildes shades ile he took up the art as the result of oc a trivial incident while visiting a family faintly one day he was shown some shades that had been cut by a machine lie ile criticized them as unlike and inartistic and was challenged to do better and in a fit of pique he seized a pair of scissors tore oft the corner of a letter that lay on the table led the fattier father to a chair and in a 1 short time exhibited a paper likeness the family expressed approval and showered edouart with praises then tie lie made the mothers likeness with the same facility and exactness edouart embarked on a successful career with scissors and paper and when lie he came to america in 1839 ho he took new york by kansas city star |