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A tableau vivant (French: [tablo vivɑ̃]; often shortened to tableau; pl. tableaux vivants; French for 'living picture') is a static scene containing one or more actors or models. They are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery , and may be theatrically illuminated .
The tableau vivant, or group of living statues, was a regular feature of medieval and Renaissance festivities and pageantry, such as royal entries by rulers into cities. Typically a group enacting a scene would be mounted on an elaborate stand decorated to look like a monument, placed on the route of the procession.
Tableau, another term for a table of data, particularly: Cryptographic tableau, or tabula recta, used in manual cipher systems; Division tableau, a table used to do long division; Method of analytic tableaux (also semantic tableau or truth tree), a technique of automated theorem proving in logic
In French art this was known as the Troubador style. This trend, already apparent by 1817 when Ingres painted Henri IV Playing with His Children, culminated in the pompier art of French academicians such as Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) and Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815–91). In the second half of the century interest in genre scenes ...
Roman tabula, or wax tablet, with stylus. Tabula rasa (/ ˈ t æ b j ə l ə ˈ r ɑː s ə,-z ə, ˈ r eɪ-/; Latin for "blank slate") is the idea of individuals being born empty of any built-in mental content, so that all knowledge comes from later perceptions or sensory experiences.
The painting was reenacted in the May 16, 2012, season 3 "Tableau Vivant" episode of the comedy television series Modern Family. [48] Another imitation of the work is the cover art to Tony Bennett's 2008 Christmas album A Swingin' Christmas (Featuring The Count Basie Big Band). [49] [50] The parody includes all 13 members of Count Basie's band ...
Panning through the tableau, a camera first showed a person crowned with an aureole in front of DJ turntables. The next shot showed the rest of the table lined with performers holding their poses.
Kitsch (/ k ɪ tʃ / KICH; loanword from German) [a] [1] is a term applied to art and design that is perceived as naïve imitation, overly eccentric, gratuitous or of banal taste. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The modern avant-garde traditionally opposed kitsch for its melodramatic tendencies, its superficial relationship with the human condition and its ...