Sentence examples for elaborate tableaux from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

At invitation-only viewings the week before the auction, fashionable types like Betsy Bloomingdale and the architect Richard Meier crowded Sotheby's 10th floor, where the designer's things had been installed in elaborate tableaux recalling his much photographed Sutton Place apartment and 1779 stone house in New Preston, Conn.

In an on-campus studio, thickly carpeted with leaves collected for the occasion, they set up an elaborate tableau with a large cast (played gamely by students).

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.

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.