Tuesday, March 23, 2010

T is for Tableau Vivant




A Tableau Vivant occurs when a group of performers create a scene without movement or speech to create a living picture. This was a popular form of entertainment before radio, film or television and were a major feature at festivities for royal weddings, coronations, and royal entries to cities. Due to strict morality laws in the early nineteenth century forbidding women from dancing in the nude, Tableaux Vivants were used as a form of erotic entertainment under the guise of art and culture. If classical art works were permitted to show female nudity, it was understood that it was movement that caused the female form to become sexual. This meant that recreations of classical works using nude women could and would be permitted.


I couldn't find a good naughty Tableau but the one above by Canadian artist Adad Hannah is pretty cool! I'm pretty sure the one guy in the recreation should have his pants off though.. I found the links here and here

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