Silhouette

A silhouette is the image of a person, object or scene consisting of the outline shape of the object with the silhouetted object usually being black. Traditionally, the silhouette is a form of artwork, the word is french from the  18th century and applied to portraits or other pictorial representations cut from thin black card. Silhouette images may be created in any artistic media, but the tradition is of cutting portraits from black card.