"Ghost image" refers to a faint or transparent copy of an object, person, or picture that appears slightly behind or alongside the original. It is like a blurry or shadowy duplicate that is less distinct than the real thing. Full definition
There are pools of resin, thick passages of paint applied with palette knife, stains and loosely rendered ghost images from our world. (yvettegellis.com)
Jack Whitten's narrative Abstract Expressionist works from the 1960s draw imagery from the Civil Rights movement, including ghosted images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; Joan Semmel's figurative paintings question representation of female sexuality through the lens of self - portraiture; Gay liberation and the AIDS crisis are the cultural context for narrative paintings by the late Hugh Steers (1963 — 1995). (alexandergray.com)
He exploits to the utmost the suggestion of ghost image in the palimpsest of the monotype plate. (arthaps.com)