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Standing with folded arms; Standing contrapposto, with most of the weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs in the axial plane; Standing at attention, upright with an assertive and correct posture: "chin up, chest out, shoulders back, stomach in", arms at the side, heels together, toes apart
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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog [a] is a painting by German Romanticist artist Caspar David Friedrich made in 1818. [2] It depicts a man standing upon a rocky precipice with his back to the viewer; he is gazing out on a landscape covered in a thick sea of fog through which other ridges, trees, and mountains pierce, which stretches out into the distance indefinitely.
A 2019 eye tracking study, by showing that contrapposto acts as supernormal stimulus and increases perceived attractiveness, has provided evidence and insight as to why, in artistic presentation, goddesses of beauty and love are often depicted in contrapposto pose. [4] This was later supported in a neuroimaging study. [5]
The Vitruvian Man depicts a nude man facing forward and surrounded by a square, while superimposed on a circle. [2] The man is portrayed in different stances simultaneously: His arms are stretched above his shoulders and then perpendicular to them, while his legs are together and also spread out along the circle's base. [2]
The position of at attention, or standing at attention, is a military posture which involves the following general postures: [1]. Standing upright with an assertive and correct posture: famously "chin up, chest out, shoulders back, stomach in".
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Kouros (Ancient Greek: κοῦρος, pronounced, plural kouroi) is the modern term [a] given to free-standing Ancient Greek sculptures that depict nude male youths. They first appear in the Archaic period in Greece and are prominent in Attica and Boeotia , with a less frequent presence in many other Ancient Greek territories such as Sicily.