special painting style?

Question

there was a painting i saw where it was in black and white, but the artist only used black to paint some parts of a persons face. when you look at it, you can see that it is a person, but is there some special name for those type of paintings? and does anyone know a website that specializes in them

Answer 1

If you have a link to it, I would love to see the painting.

Otherwise, it seems as if you are describing a silhouette. In regards to painting a silhouette, you could call it the most basic form of monochromatic painting. However, there is a technique called Grisaille.

Grisaille (grĭ-zī', -zāl') (Fr. gris, grey) is a term for painting executed entirely in monochrome, in various shades of grey, particularly used in decoration to represent objects in relief.
A grisaille may be executed for its own sake as a decoration, as the first layer of an oil painting (in preparation for glazing layers of color over it), or as a model for an engraver to work from.
For example, the ceiling frescoes of the Sistine chapel have portions of the design in grisaille. At Hampton Court the lower part of the decoration of the great staircase by Antonio Verrio is in grisaille.

Here are some sites for you to check out on monochromatic painting and grisaille.

Answer 2

It could be part of the black and white paintings of Jackson Pollock 1951-52 for example "Portrait and a Dream" though this has a little colour red and orange but "Number 27,1951" or "Number 7 1952" are only black on a white ground. These formed a later version of Pollock´s so called "drip" style of painting. Check his website.

Answer 3

How approximately David and Neoclassicism, in connection with the French Revolution? that ought to make for a desirable little presentation that discusses the way imaginitive form can replicate or be inspired by making use of social, cultural, and political events.

Answer 4

Do you mean a silhouette? It is an old art form using paper cut outs.