tableau vivant

English

Etymology

Borrowed fromFrenchtableau vivant(literally“living picture”).

Noun

tableauvivant(pluraltableaux vivants)

1. (art)Atableau(group scene resembling a painting).
   • 2013,Rob Stone, Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla,A Companion to Luis Buñuel,John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN:

     Indeed, there is something uncanny about the careful re-enactment of the scene in the manner of atableau vivant,something that Jean-Luc Godard would also experiment with and try to push to its limits inPassion(1982).

Further reading

• tableau vivanton Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ta.blo vi.vɑ̃/

Noun

tableauvivantm(pluraltableaux vivants)

1. tableau vivant