The document discusses the history and uses of tableau vivant, which are living pictures formed by people holding motionless poses. Tableau vivants originated in the 19th century and were often used as a form of erotic entertainment showing virtually nude poses. They continued to be used on stage when censorship forbade movement from actresses in nude or semi-nude scenes. More recently, the term has been applied to a style of art photography capturing posed, motionless groups forming a scene.

3. Tableau vivant
• French for "living picture.“
• Throughout the duration of the display, the
people shown do not speak or move.
• The most recent hey-day of the tableau vivant
was the 19th century with virtually nude
tableaux vivants or "poses plastiques"
providing a form of erotic entertainment.

4. Tableau On Stage

5. • Series of tableaux presented
on a theatre stage, one
following another, usually tells
a story without requiring all
the usual trappings of a "live"
theatre performance.

6. • Since English stage censorship often strictly
forbade actresses to move when nude or
semi-nude on stage, tableaux vivants also had
a place in presenting risqué entertainment at
special shows.
• In the nineteenth century actresses took such
titles as "Nymphs Bathing" and "Diana the
Huntress" and were to be found at places
providing erotic entertainment in the form of
nude tableaux vivants on stage.
• Such shows had largely died out by the 1970s.

7. Photographic
Tableau Form

8. • Jean-Francois Chevrier was the first
to coin the term Tableau in relation
to a form of art photography, which
began in the 1970s and 80s in an
essay titled The Adventures of the
Picture Form in the History of
Photography in 1989.

9. Jean-Francois Chevrier

10. • And…
one of the salient qualities of the
Tableau is that
it must be an object of thought.

12. The Fleury Tableau
depicting the Sermon on the Mount, is the largest single piece of artwork
in the church and is a three dimensional Fresco.

14. La Marseillaise
"Arise, children of the fatherland. The day of glory has arrived!
Against us, the tyranny's Bloody banner is raised.“
(French National Anthem)

15. Let’s PLAY a GAME!!!

16. •There must be two groups
Groupings
• Topic will be provided
Topic
• Members will present the topic by
Tableau forming a picture using their bodies
vivant

18. • The groups will be given 1 minute to talk
and form the tableau
Time
• Participants must keep still for ten (10)
seconds
• The group who best represents the
picture gets a point
point • The group who is able to get three (3)
points first wins the game

19. Let’s START!