living picture
Example Sentences
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In one project for Hixson’s course, which focused on socially engaged art, students dressed up to create a tableau vivant, or living picture, re-creating Raphael’s masterpiece “The School of Athens.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2017
A great living picture has two subjects, one in the foreground and one in the background.
From The Verge • Jul. 30, 2014
He has created in Mr. Cane a winning, living picture, full of pathos and triumphant dignity.
From Time Magazine Archive
The memory of the faithful, loving Ruth has been a sweet and living picture for many centuries.
From A Farmer's Wife The Story of Ruth by Willard, J. H.
The agonizing remorse and piteous senile grief have been transformed from Repin's canvas to Shaliapin's living picture, without the revolting suggestion of the shambles which mars the painter's work.
From Interpreters by Van Vechten, Carl
