As with all of his work, Wang constructs elaborate tableaux, which he then photographs and dismantles.
Shrines called mbari, which contain elaborate tableaux of painted unfired earth, are made in honour of the earth spirit in villages near Owerri in southern Nigeria.
But, in these 1861 sketches, we see Nast's mastery of the living thing, the face seized from life, which gives tensile strength to his more elaborate tableaux.
From there he graduated to making paintings and sculpture, concentrating on elaborate tableaus filled with painted three-dimensional cut-out figures that he called sculpto-pictoramas.
Role-playing is the pretext for Ann Marie Tornabene's elaborate tableaus, which, like soft-core versions of Joel Peter Witkin's work, challenge notions of beauty and good taste.
In a long, crowded gallery where many similar portraits are displayed, two far more ambitious works appear: elaborate tableaus over seven feet wide mixing real materials and painted and sculptured trompe l'oeil.
To construct Annie Leibovitz's elaborate tableaux — the "Sopranos" ads, for example — he takes apart dozens of separate pictures and puts them back together so that the seams don't show.
Tate Modern, London The idea behind the title is as old as photography itself, as shown by the elaborate tableaux created by the likes of F Holland Day, who posed himself as Christ.
Mr. Potter (1835-1918) is considered a master of visionary taxidermy, familiar to generations of British vacationers who passed through his homespun museum in Sussex, England, where hundreds of pieces — from single specimens to elaborate tableaus featuring kittens, frogs, birds and rats in all manner of humanlike situations — were displayed cheek by jowl.
