re: #124 LudwigVanQuixote

Do you deny that showing someone in shadows, just an outline without a face is frequently used to represent a lurking threat? Yes, I do deny it because context has to be applied.

Can you think of no times when such imagery has been used to that effect? And I showed a context where silhouette is used in a positive way like the Ipod commercial. Or did that freak you out?

Why is hiding the face of someone threatening? Why are people who can’t be identified more threatening than those who can be identified? Hiding the face is also inviting and self identifying. Face covered Spider-man is popular because we imaging ourselves as Spider-man under that faceless mask. Did you take any art theory courses? Did anyone here go to college? Take an art course or two? No?

Did you ever notice that the other purpose of hiding one’s face was to empower them to do evil? Seriously, how does mob mentality work? Why do the storm troopers have no faces in Starwars? Spider-man? Bat-man? Iron-man - all face covered heroes.

If there is nothing to this, why did the Nazis use that image again and again in their propaganda? The Nazis used full color in their propaganda also. They used cartoons. They used black and white and color movies. Shame on you.

There we go - point by point answers to questions posed by someone so paranoid and devoid of the theory if art that they think silhouettes are ‘evil’ and can only be evil.