tableaux vivants
- plural of tableau vivant.
Example Sentences
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I’m very interested in the tableaux vivants: you recognise a scene from a Caravaggio painting and it comes alive as a moving image.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2017
He was an ardent admirer of Goya and Daumier, and with his Hollywood access to costumes, sets, makeup and masks, would create elaborate tableaux vivants in his studio.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2014
Early on, these were epic surrealistic tableaux vivants washed in unearthly colors with names like “Folding,” “Near the Terrace” and “Behind Resonance.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2014
Mr. Bonello and Ms. Deshaies scrutinized many paintings, including lesser-known ones, not with an eye to recreating tableaux vivants but in search of telling details: attire, poses, the quality of light.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2011
Next day, early in the morning, I was summoned to a rehearsal of some tableaux vivants in which I had to take part.
From White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
