Blog 2 - How the reading relates to the everyday world

The figure in the book of van der Weyden’s Deposition is described as resembling a tableau vivant (living picture) because the figures appear to be 3 dimensional. It was interesting to find out that there is a 2 month festival every year called Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach. A group of costumed artist's models are carefully posed and don’t speak or move throughout the duration of the display. It is an art form combining painting and photography. Reproductions can be as big as 35 feet wide and 14 feet high. The models are then made two-dimensional by lighting and the elimination of shadows. One famous display that they always have is Da Vinci’s Last Supper. This is the tableau vivant, not the actual painting. It looks so real.