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Like most of his other paintings, Grimly relies more on personal inspiration than on the actual text. The creature at this point has lost most of his human characteristics (which had made him abominable) and has turned into a `troll-like` figure with a sharp nose, feathers. Although Grim Grisly has retained the moss-like hair depicted in the book, he has given the creautre a more animalistic side. The sharp canine teeth, the wooden legs, the long nails are all `parts` of a sylvian creature and not a nautical one. The beast's one Poseidon-like aspect of long beard has also been abandoned, leaving itself with a black stubble. The few things that do remind the viewer that this still is the sea is the creature's peg-leg (like that of a pirate's), the sea-gul nesting on its back (again turning the creature into more of a beast than a human) and the sea fauna scattered in the paiting. Grim Grisly's Portrayal of the creature might be powerful and its success is debatable but it is clear that he did not follow the more Greaco-Roman view of the cannibalistic beast with the logos as written by Collodi and created a more Scandinavian Gothic beast. |