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
Each act becomes a living picture, revealed by the rising of the curtain and closed by its fall.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
I pored once more over the cryptic legend: I sold my soul that I might paint a living picture.
From The Golgotha Dancers by Wellman, Manly Wade
