tableau vivant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French tableau vivant (literally “living picture”).

Noun

tableau vivant (plural tableaux vivants)

1. (art) A tableau (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 a tableau vivant, something that Jean-Luc Godard would also experiment with and try to push to its limits in Passion (1982).

Further reading

• tableau vivant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.blo vi.vɑ̃/

Noun

tableau vivant m (plural tableaux vivants)

1. tableau vivant