For centuries, the 28-scene cycle — which recounts the life of the saint with a narrative zest and compositional depth that leave the flat tableaus of the Byzantine era far behind — was attributed to Giotto.
For centuries, the 28-scene cycle -- which recounts the life of the saint with a narrative zest and compositional depth that leave the flat tableaus of the Byzantine era far behind -- was attributed to Giotto.
The cityscapes and countrysides are flat, static tableaus whose lucid perspectives reproduce the visual culture of the time.
Its raucous, brightly colored life-size figures of animals, humanoids and other phenomena form a sprawling tableau, flat forms translated into a 3-D setup.
In the midst of this tableau, Saatchi's computer, a black flat-screen desktop, occupies a clutter-free zone toward the front.
Most writing about Plath is devoted to the bleak tableau of her final days in her dank London flat, when her separation from a philandering Hughes precipitated a frenzy of her darkest and most inspired poems.
Her protagonists are the lovers Krishna and Rada, whose figures stand out against flat, stylized, and highly colored backgrounds like actors in theatrical tableaux.
Geometrical shapes and masses are often the basic units in the design of both "flat patterns," such as Byzantine and Islamic paintings, and "sculptural compositions," such as Baroque and Neoclassical figure tableaux.
It was a gratifying tableau.
