David-the naturalistic stance known as contrapposto.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

I found a photo of an old sculpture of a female model in the classic contrapposto pose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demi Moore Mohawk Photo] Reference

I think it may in fact have been the contrapposto that signaled ‘gayish’ to the kid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Case of the Androgynous Pharaoh | clusterflock] Reference

Cast in the contrapposto style, the David has captivated the public from the moment it was unveiled in 1504.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Restoration, Phantom of the Opera] Reference

He flexes his six-pack in awkward contrapposto, while holding a leash attached to a man on all fours wearing a dog collar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest 'Aida' in London Fails to Deliver] Reference

Thus arranged — mangled, really, in a contorted contrapposto — he could observe the users of the bank's ATM without himself being seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arab Bank] Reference

Most impressive is the opening, with the dancers grouped in contrapposto poses, the distinctive Renaissance S-curve of the torso, as harpsichords sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [A singular vision: Nearing 80, Paul Taylor is as moving a dance figure as ever] Reference

She wore leather pants and shifted her weight constantly, throwing out knees and hips in lanky contrapposto as if freshly delighted by her surfeit of limb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kissinger, Rushdie, Star Jones Splash Into Pool Room For Four Seasons' 50th] Reference

With over 4,000 pages and 2,400 images, it is a dialogue between Aztec and European cultures, with illustrations combining Mesoamerican colors and forms with Renaissance shading and contrapposto poses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maite Gomez-Rejon: Cooking Art History: The Aztecs] Reference

Walk With contrapposto, 1968 is a video installation of Nauman acting out contrapposto, the exaggerated pose of classical sculpture, as he walks down a narrow, plywood hallway constructed in his studio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holly Shen: Nostalgic for Nauman] Reference

From the dawning of Greek Classicism to well beyond the Italian Renaissance, artists learned to faithfully master contrapposto, linear perspective, and the like in order to achieve the great, mythic aspiration of beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebecca Taylor: All I Really Need To Know I Learned From Baldessari] Reference

Each slender figure is in itself the quintessence of Sienese lightness and elegance, but by showing all eight, in frames especially made for the show, you see that the rhythm of the contrapposto poses, the careful colour co-ordination, and the way the female figures bend their heads to follow the graceful curve of the shaped panels, are all part of the overall compositional scheme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance Siena] Reference

I stood contrapposto, legs askance to his washings.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Life, Take Two] Reference

It's nice to have a contrapposto-stance, but it's also nice to see a bit of strain in there;).    From Wordnik.com.  [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference

Most of the oil sketches for Setting out to Fish stand as small finished paintings; one of them, a woman in blue with her left elbow jutting in gauche parody of the classical contrapposto of ancient Roman sculpture, was evidently finished in the studio on different days so different are the colours and textures of the brushwork representing sand on either side of her - applied with a flickering, dabbing touch of pure colour that astonishingly anticipates by five years Seurat's preliminary sketches for his Bathers (.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

But it has many virtues, such as that it's possible here and now, unlike more automated systems, and that, rather than start from raw data, it builds on the legacy of what we already know, or think we know, about the content of Blake's designs (we sometimes know Urizen from Los, or a sheep from a serpent), and what we know about the history of Western visual representation in general (that "contrapposto" is a conventional pose, and we can label it when we see it).    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction] Reference