page_title: Tableau vivant
hierarchical_section_title: Tableau vivant
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Foto. Tableau vivant voorstellende "de Gouddelving" tijdens de optocht voor het Gouvernementspaleis in Paramaribo op 31 augustus 1892.
context_page_description: A tableau vivant, 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 lit. It thus combines aspects of theatre and the visual arts.
  A tableau may either be 'performed' live, or depicted in painting, photography and sculpture, such as in many works of the Romantic, Aesthetic, Symbolist, Pre-Raphaelite, and Art Nouveau movements.
  In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tableaux sometimes featured poses plastiques by virtually nude models, providing a form of erotic entertainment, both on stage and in print.
  Tableaux continue to the present day in the form of living statues, street performers who busk by posing in costume.
context_section_description: A tableau vivant (French: [tablo vivɑ̃]; often shortened to tableau; plural: 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 lit. It thus combines aspects of theatre and the visual arts.
  A tableau may either be 'performed' live, or depicted in painting, photography and sculpture, such as in many works of the Romantic, Aesthetic, Symbolist, Pre-Raphaelite, and Art Nouveau movements.
  In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tableaux sometimes featured poses plastiques ('flexible poses') by virtually nude models, providing a form of erotic entertainment, both on stage and in print.
  Tableaux continue to the present day in the form of living statues, street performers who busk by posing in costume.
caption: Outdoor tableau vivant about gold mining in Paramaribo, 1892
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