November 20th, 2007

Intricate art from simple materials

Intricate art from simple materials

Paper and scissors. For about 400 hundred years, these simple tools have been used in Europe to create artistic pictures. Black-and-white depictions of herds going up to mountain pastures are regarded as typically Swiss, and in Switzerland hundreds of artists make silhouettes a lively art form to which Swiss Post is dedicating four special stamps.

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