The phrase "as a tableau" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a scene or situation that is visually striking or arranged in a way that resembles a picture or a dramatic display.
Example: "The children stood frozen in place, as a tableau of innocence and joy, capturing the essence of their carefree summer days."
Alternatives: "like a picture" or "as a scene".
"You must see this as a tableau.
You think that this room might be better as a tableau vivant, soundless, a visual representation of hierarchies of cool.
The artist intended his presentation at Magic Fingers to read as a "tableau vivant in the form of a theatricized political cartoon".
THE three heroines of Eric Overmyer's "On the Verge or the Geography of Yearning," in their lavish Victorian dresses, are as pretty as a tableau.
To work with this piece, which has an accompanying video, have students both read the article and watch the video first, and then discuss how they could represent the ideas as a tableau.
She admitted that she chafes at the popular image of her family — the five handsome sons, all married to pretty wives, the family's financial fortune — as a tableau of domestic perfection.
The spooky indie folkie Justin Vernon from Bon Iver spoke of smoking marijuana with Rick Ross on one of his three sojourns to Hawaii to work with Mr. West, about as surreal a tableau as has been created in the making of any pop album this year.
But it was still possible to step into their world, as into a tableau vivant, and almost catch sight of their ghosts.
With a large curtain, drawn back as though revealing a tableau vivant, Vermeer announced his allegorical intent for this large and imposing work.
He loves Christmas as an occasion, a tableau, a living greeting card, because it is so cozy, so full of family feeling and such a box-office bonanza.
In his essay "Christmas Freud," Mr. Rakoff tells of volunteering to spend several weeks as Freud in a tableau vivant, part of the 1996 holiday window displays at Barneys New York, the luxury emporium.
