A decorated Korean War veteran gone fishing in a rural arcadia, his trusty dog at his side: the tableau, a throwback to Saturday Evening Post covers by Norman Rockwell, could put a lump in your throat.
"I don't want to miss my cue," the festively dressed man sitting next to me explained as he edged his chair closer to see the left side of the tableau before us: 120 people arrayed over tiered platforms at one end of the extraordinary Skylight One Hanson, a majestic Art Deco space in the former Williamsburgh Savings Bank building, a towering landmark in downtown Brooklyn.
On the opposite side of the tableaux, she is a mature artist, in all her colors.
In 2008 she created a tableau on the side of Montauk Highway, which borders her property.
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Bergdorf's solution was to make each window on the Fifth Avenue side of the store an illustrated tableau of a different value or virtue, like mirth, hope, wisdom and grace.
Like a Shakespearean character making asides to an audience, the artist is depicted at one side of the canvas as a tableau unfolds involving a procuress, a client and a prostitute.
They are in awe of the elaborate carrot diorama you've arranged on every available surface — thousands of carrots perched upright, cut-side down, displayed in a fearsome tableau.
Today in this partitioned capital, the tableau of terror continued on both sides.
I believe he is in error to place so much shadow around the leading couple in the middle of "Diamonds," but he heightens some tableaus in "Emeralds" and "Rubies" with side lighting that makes the bodies gleam sensationally.
