These vibrant tableaux provide a rare look at the creative expression of pygmy women as they complete a maternal rite of passage.
But whereas Pedro Almodovar at his best composes gaudy, vibrant tableaux that hold silliness, cruelty and earnest emotion in perfect balance, his epigones Alfonso Albacete, Miguel Bardem and David Menkes, who share writing and directing credits for "Not Love, Just Frenzy," have made a movie that, perhaps unwittingly, lives up to its title.
In Venice, the young El Greco produced composed, vibrant tableaux in the manner of Titian (whom he may have worked for at one point; the historical record isn't clear), and had he stayed there he might be remembered today as a talented but not extraordinary painter of the late Renaissance.
In her ongoing series "Photographs Rendered in Play-Doh," Macnair does exactly what it sounds like -- she turns famous photographs both historical and contemporary into vibrant tableaux of kid-safe modeling clay.
Her rich and vibrant circular tableaus bring new meaning to a realm of artistry that recalls parlor needlepoint done by aristocratic daughters and wives of yesteryear.
The painter's tableaus range from drippy monochrome to vibrant, simmering warm tones, establishing depth often where the eye would least expect it.
It was "a suburban tableau," he said, the antithesis of a vibrant city where energy is always flowing.
The four Nordhocs, who provide the messy, vibrant heart of the novel, make up a representative tableau for the new millennium: the American family as mash-up.
The tableau's rich blues and reds are still vibrant today.
McClure's folk-inflected vernacular of vibrant colors and serene flatness speaks softly and warmly, yet her tableaux of aftermaths employ the imagery of massively destructive floods wreaking havoc on once-idyllic cities and towns, in an overtly allegorical storytelling mode recalling Picasso's oft-quoted assertion that, "We all know art is not truth.
At times these outfits -- like the full Miss Muffet skirt, Mary Janes and bonnet on the little girl in front of the Tiffany window, or the vibrant provincial patterns worn by the two Asian children -- create their own small tableaux.
