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Example Question #1 : Fourteenth Through Sixteenth Century Sculpture
Michelangelo's David displays this compositional technique, wherein the figure's posture is tense on one side and relaxed on the other because its weight is shifted disproportionately to one foot.
Possible Answers:
Formal balance
Contrappusto
Interaxial balance
Figura serpentinata
Correct answer:
Contrappusto
Explanation:
"Contrappusto" (meaning counterpose in Italian) is the term used to describe a posture in which the figure's weight is shifted to one foot, causing the shoulders and hips to twist off the body's central axis so they are no longer parallel, as seen in David. It was introduced in Classical Greek art and rediscovered in the Renaissance.
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