Innocenti's Fisherman

The fisherman as drawn by Innocenti has both a baroque and a iconic look to it. The reasons for the first observation is that almost all the frame is used. The staircases, the enormous fisherman, the inside of the giant tower ruins. The domineering stance of the fisherman gives him a `Poseidon` look and also makes him a perversive father figure (which is discussed further in the essay about monsters). The iconic look comes from the reverse perspective of the picture. While post-Raphealite period, the pictures were subjected to the gaze of the spectator, and spectator was taken as the center of  perspective, this picture makes the fisherman the center of the perspective. It is the spectator who is secondary and further than the fisherman. This also gives an uncanny feeling to the picture adding to the gothic feeling that is already perpetuated by the use of tower ruin.

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