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Contrapposto
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Contrapposto 

in the fine arts, a device used in the representation of a figure, in which one part of the body is posed in opposition to another. For example, the upper part of the body is turned, but the lower part is in a frontal position. Contrapposto animates the rhythm of the figure, conveying a sense of movement or tension. It emphasizes the three-dimensionality of the figure without disturbing the equilibrium of form.
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This restricted action ended up as the video, Walk with Contraposto (1968).
Nauman, Wittgenstein, Beckett: the 1960s studio films by Hixson, Kathryn / ArtUS
For the Christmas and Easter stamps of 1980 and 1981, each sculpture was singled out and drawn in contraposto.
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In both of these late extravaganzas, Mannerist attenuations of form, contraposto poses, drapery so brittle that it seems to have a life of its own, and "jewel-tone" hues, all seen under theatrical spot-lighting, produce images that seem to be less driven by religious fervor than by a desire for consistent style; the attenuated proportions of the figures in these pictures invoke the fashion sketch more than they do aesthetic eloquence.
The modernism of El Greco by Wilkin, Karen / New Criterion
 
 
 
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