tableau vivant
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of tableau vivant
Literally, “living picture”
Example Sentences
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After all, close scrutiny of a painting or a sculpture is not the aim of a tableau vivant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2021
Borrowing aesthetic motifs from earlier art, like medieval and Renaissance painting, Ms. Bruguera’s tableau vivant asks you to “stop looking and start thinking” about politics, history and violence.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2018
In one project for Hixson’s course, which focused on socially engaged art, students dressed up to create a tableau vivant, or living picture, re-creating Raphael’s masterpiece “The School of Athens.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2017
It’s a tableau vivant of a woman dressed in a golden gown, sitting on a revolving platform and playing an E-minor chord on a guitar.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2016
They wore their official robes, occupied their ivory chairs, and being carefully got up with venerable white beards, they had all the imposing effect of a tableau vivant upon the Gauls who entered the Forum.
From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?
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