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contrapposto

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con·trap·pos·to  (kntr-pst)
n.
The position of a figure in painting or sculpture in which the hips and legs are turned in a different direction from that of the shoulders and head; the twisting of a figure on its own vertical axis.
[Italian, past participle of contrapporre, to set opposite, contrast, from Latin contrpnere : contr-, contra- + pnere, to place; see apo- in Indo-European roots.]
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But the triptych Vortex Painting, 2004, is the fairest of them all: The flora-and-fauna fabric strip on the left and the contrapposto female form on the right recall the capricious stylistic combinations and masterly, if coldly blase, technical gifts on which Salle first hung his hat.
David Salle: Mary Boone Gallery by Pasquariello, Lisa / Artforum International
How is it that out of the frieze the body is still dependent-- even in contrapposto appealing to the air?
The greatest sin? by Tinder, Glenn / Commonweal
With her back to the viewer, she kneels in a twisted contrapposto pose--her right knee forward and right shoulder back, left knee positioned slightly behind the right and her left shoulder forward, and arms directed to the right and her face turned to the left--and offers a structural and compositional bridge between the figures gathered around the demoniac boy on the right and the nine apostles on the left.
Tropes of revelation in Raphael's Transfiguration * by Cranston, Jodi / Renaissance Quarterly
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