Mr. Snyder, with his characteristic lack of subtlety, hits the Jesus angle amusingly hard, primarily in a later scene in which Superman — framed by a stained-glass tableau of a supplicating Jesus draped in a red robe — consults with a priest in a church.
In the main dining room, each offers a good view of the kitchen, which bustles professionally behind a thick glass wall, a silent tableau that recalls an operating theater as much as a place where food is prepared.
Synthesizing elements of his admired contemporaries, Cézanne, van Gogh, and others, and inspired by Japanese prints, folk art, and medieval stained glass, he created exuberant tableaux charged with sensuality and primal tension.
Fellini went deliriously and brilliantly bananas with the color to create a rollicking through-the-looking-glass series of tableaus evoking a woman's troubled psyche.
She described a frightful tableau of shattered glass, streaks of blood and a trail of torn wreckage, as if the "guts" of the car had "splashed" out.
The painting also features a cockroach, a hammer, and a glass, lending the otherwise frivolous tableau a slightly ominous feel.
A shooter demonstrates a chef's ability to select seafood, to tweeze into existence a small but delightful tableau in a glass and to season in a way that both heightens and respects the flavor of a fresh kumamoto.
Tableaux of furniture, glass cases and paint-smeared blocks of foam suggest the enclosed realms of both domestic life and theatrical display.
Although it would require us to sacrifice our family trip to the local costume store (where we linger every year in front of the plate-glass window that displays a tableau of a mother rat suckling her snarling litter in a bone-strewn graveyard), the selection would be worth it.
Inside a glass-topped case, a kind of tableau has been made with sand, boots, a lantern, identity cards, a watch and a bullet-riddled helmet.
The actual window had been glassed off and transformed into a tableau mordant of how it might have looked 50 years ago, complete with repositories of musty school text books.
