Attilio Mussino's Fisherman

Attilio Mussino's Fisherman, like his other pictures have the fantastic quality about them. The fisherman has his qualities as written by Collodi quite physically realized. Collodi described the fisherman as:

`...a Fisherman so ugly that Pinocchio thought he was a sea monster In place of hair, his head was covered by a thick bush of green grass. Green was the skin of his body, green were his eyes, green was the long, long beard that reached down to his feet. He looked like a giant lizard with legs and arms.`

Rather than going for a more life-like depiction of the greature (like Innocenti) Mussino depicted him completely like the one described by Collodi. Notice that the beard that reaches the ground gives him a specre-like quality, and his lack of clothing (accented by the manner that his shorts are of the same colour as his skin) help create the image of the fisherman like that of the sea: borderless and ethereal. Further, note the beard on his shoulders giving an image like a fur coat on his body, giving the creature a noble and eternal quality.

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