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
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At length his eye stood in his head, his mouth opened, and he became what artists would call "a living picture."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
Dumas never drew a more living picture; she is the joy of this rather sad play.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various