{"id":43805,"date":"2026-02-05T16:08:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43805"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:08:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:08:47","slug":"word-of-the-day-1092","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/02\/05\/word-of-the-day-1092\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Contrapposto<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The contrapposto definition is a relaxed and life-like standing pose [for a statue] in which the body\u2019s weight is rested on one leg. The figure does not stand stiff and upright but distributes the weight of the body at ease. The classical contrapposto pose requires artists to understand the various counterposed components of the figure.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/artincontext.org\/contrapposto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Art In Context<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in this <em><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/em> video, &#8220;<em>Contrapposto Explained<\/em>,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Contrapposto explained\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5vK7Z2Odnc0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Or see its <a href=\"https:\/\/smarthistory.org\/contrapposto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">home site<\/a> at <em><strong>smarthistory<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrapposto: The contrapposto definition is a relaxed and life-like standing pose [for a statue] in which the body\u2019s weight is rested on one leg. The figure does not stand stiff and upright but distributes the weight of the body at ease. The classical contrapposto pose requires artists to understand the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/02\/05\/word-of-the-day-1092\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43806,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43805\/revisions\/43806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}