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Tableau vivant

• French for "living picture.“ • Throughout the duration of the display, the

people shown do not speak or move. • The most recent hey-day of the tableau vivant

was the 19th century with virtually nude tableaux vivants or "poses plastiques" providing a form of erotic entertainment.

Tableau On Stage

• Series of tableaux presented on a theatre stage, one following another, usually tells a story without requiring all the usual trappings of a "live" theatre performance.

• Since English stage censorship often strictly forbade actresses to move when nude or semi-nude on stage, tableaux vivants also had a place in presenting risqué entertainment at special shows.

• In the nineteenth century actresses took such titles as "Nymphs Bathing" and "Diana the Huntress" and were to be found at places providing erotic entertainment in the form of nude tableaux vivants on stage.

• Such shows had largely died out by the 1970s.

Photographic Tableau Form

• Jean-Francois Chevrier was the first to coin the term Tableau in relation to a form of art photography, which began in the 1970s and 80s in an essay titled The Adventures of the Picture Form in the History of Photography in 1989.

Jean-Francois Chevrier

• And…

one of the salient qualities of the Tableau is that

it must be an object of thought.

The Fleury Tableau

depicting the Sermon on the Mount, is the largest single piece of artwork in the church and is a three dimensional Fresco.

La Marseillaise

"Arise, children of the fatherland. The day of glory has arrived! Against us, the tyranny's Bloody banner is raised.“

(French National Anthem)

Let’s PLAY a GAME!!!

Groupings• There must be two

groups

Topic •Topic will be provided

Tableau vivant •Members will present the topic by forming a picture using their bodies

Time •The groups will be given 1 minute to talk and form the tableau

•Participants must keep still for ten (10) seconds

point •The group who best represents the picture gets a point•The group who is able to get three (3) points first wins the game

Let’s START!