Sentence examples for outdoor tableau from inspiring English sources
The couple's journey culminated in an outdoor tableau at a designated place with the shepherds and the Magi then traveling the streets in parade fashion looking for the Christ child.
He uses low shooting positions, as if the camera itself is bowing, group compositions in profile and restful tableaux of outdoor landscapes (often showing railway lines or stations) or empty interiors to cleanse the viewer's palate between scenes.
Outdoor cafe tables make a pretty tableau in fair weather.
In our crisscrossing the ranch, at one point we stopped in an outdoor graveyard of old cars, a white-trash tableau of desiccated, rusting sheet metal.
Although scornful of the cliché Mexican scenes loved by tourists (and often done by Rivera), Orozco was not above depicting his native landscape in nostalgic terms, as seen in another 1930 painting, "Mexican Hills," a brooding tableau of two women huddled in a stark outdoor setting.
Some tableaux had a serene, composed beauty — James Ingalls bathed the outdoor scenes in his patented pale sunlight — but the net effect was cold and obscure, as if these Trojans were still trapped in a marble frieze.
Ecological messages also underpin Mark Dion's "Habitat Group" (2004), a tableaux vivant consisting of a bunch of plastic bird decoys and outdoor roughage covered in tar to simulate the effects of an oil spillage.
In the last 100 years this singularly American outdoor advertising genre — attacked by beautification and environmental advocates — has evolved from innocent pictorialism, built on idealized tableaus and famous trade characters, to an aggressive mélange of word and image strategically situated to pique desire and stimulate consumption.
Each of the paintings is a stagey tableau in which -- in a chiaroscuro style derived from Caravaggio -- the figures are highlighted against a dark indoor or outdoor setting.
