Others prefer observation without cameras, such as Josephine Halvorson, who paints modest tableaux of rural buildings from arm's length, or Liu Xiaodong, whose plein-air paintings of young Chinese students recall Manet and Courbet.
The modest, homespun tableau stood in calculated contrast to the formality of an announcement at City Hall, to reinforce Mr. de Blasio's pitch as a family man from outside Manhattan, embodying the city's diversity.
They depict modest, domestic tableaux in which anti-apartheid posters hang above framed family photos.
"History" ricochets all over the company's modest space, recreating one epochal tableau after another on the floor and on stages, with the aid of audience participation, in Living Theater habit.
"Frankly, I don't think most people are willing to make the sacrifices that you need to make to be an entrepreneur and to bootstrap a company from nothing". Chabot says that the Tableau trio brought modest amounts of money to the table, to the tune of a few thousand dollars each, "But most importantly, we worked for free". "The hardest thing you have to do when you bootstrap is to work for free.
Mr. Hegarty himself was a modest figure within the larger tableaus, sometimes very still, sometimes gesturing.
The juxtaposition of these frenzied homages beside the actual veterans' more modest reminiscences, overlaid with a variety of stage tableaus, does neither half of "Gunga Din" any favors.
Finally, Tableau has been able to show profits, albeit modest, as the company has grown rapidly.
Researching the Prada collection for visual cues was a departure for Amy Cutler, who populates her fairy-tale tableaux with sturdy women who are often dressed in modest Victorian garb -- more Mennonite farmer than Milanese high-fashion priestess.
She hailed the firefighters as "the bravest people that have ever served any city". Rather than stand with a phalanx of uniformed firefighters, a tableau that has become closely associated with the Sept. 11 attack, Mrs. Clinton chose to make a modest, almost quiet, appearance with about a dozen or so union officials in front of Ladder Company 157 on Flatbush Avenue.
So you have to be able to adjust your lifestyle for some period of time, maybe a year or year-and-a-half". Tableau was able to run with capital efficiency in its early days because its founders took up modest lifestyles in order to save money.
