Contrapposto

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Contrapposto (Italian pronunciation: [kontrapˈposto] 'counterpoise'), in the visual arts, is a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot, so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs in the axial plane.

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Image: Marie-Lan Nguyen image; Paolo Villa diagrams with transparent background, up draw and write example of Contrapposto Doryphoros from Pompeii (anonymous roman copy after Polykleitos), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.