tableau vivant
Americannoun
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tableaux vivants
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of tableau vivant
Literally, “living picture”
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If that sounds like the way photographs were made during the camera’s 19th century infancy — well, it’s not coincidental that the tableau vivant was birthed and flourished around the same time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2021
The vision God bless us every one, a Tudorbethan tableau vivant of bronzed meats, spice and familial merriment.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2018
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
And in this way they continued like two figures in a tableau vivant, till the entrance of other parties broke the spell which thus had fixed them in their positions.
From Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock
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