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Femme aux Bras Croisés (English: Woman with Folded Arms), is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, which he created between 1901 and 1902 during his Blue Period.The subject of the painting is unknown, but she is considered to be an inmate of the Saint-Lazare hospital-prison in Paris.
S-curve (art) Contrapposto (Italian pronunciation: [kontrapĖposto]) is an Italian term that means "counterpoise". It is used in the visual arts to describe 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.
File: Pablo Picasso, 1909, Man with Arms Crossed, watercolor, gouache and charcoal on paper pasted on cardboard, Gouache, watercolour and tempera, 65.2 x 49.2 cm, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.jpg Add languages
A sample of variants of the cross pattée Image Description With the edges of the arms concave throughout. Best known for its use as the Iron Cross, based on the Leechkirche [] of the Teutonic Order (), used as a symbol of the German Empire that was present in its War Ensign and war materiel, including on Luftstreitkräfte aircraft until April 1918 when the Balkenkreuz was introduced.
Miming is an art form in which the performer uses gestures to convey a story; charades is a game of gestures. Mimed gestures might generally be used to refer to an action in context, for example turning a pretend crank to ask someone to lower a car side window (or for modern power windows , pointing down or miming pressing a button).
Alliance arms of Mary of Looz-Heinsberg. Arms of women were usually depicted on lozenges. Here, her family arms are impaled with those of her husband, John IV, Count of Nassau-Siegen. Due to the differing role of women in past society, special rules grew relating to the blazoning of arms for women. The rules for women and heraldry developed ...
Winter depicts the nubile form of a young woman clad only in a shawl.The woman's arms are crossed across her chest and stomach, pressing her scant garment to her skin. Her gaze is downcast, while her right leg is slightly elevated and crossed before her left, pulling her body into a defensive posture.
In Indian art, especially ancient and medieval, the pose is often used for female figures, but in the art of Java these are very rare, and restricted to figures closely following Indian models. This restriction may well be because the normal female dress (though not worn by deities in art) made the pose impossible for women.