Paper Silhouette Installation At The National Portrait Gallery
This past summer on our museum extravaganza in Washington DC, we had the pleasure of visiting The Portrait Gallery, which yes, is portrait after portrait after portrait, but the museum occupies an adjacent attached building to the Smithsonian Museum Of American Art, so one can stay on the same floor and view exhibits from both museums, very interesting! I really enjoyed seeing the portraits of the Presidents of the USA, the new portraits of MIchelle and Barak, and a really interesting numbered series of portraits of Native Americans, just to name a few. And there happened to be a really great exhibit about silhouettes, (which were stylish before the camera came about) that included historic silhouettes as well as present day shilhouette art, including this amazing paper installation of a Victorian maypole scene. Really fabulous, especially for a crafter/paper lover/graphic designer/wannabe artist like myself! Enjoy!
As a fan of Victorian clip art and Dover books, I certainly know the characters in this scene quite well, and to see them jump off the page was really quite exciting!
The birds really made the whole piece come alive.
Inspiring right? Now go and do something creative!
