Visual Analysis Of Spider Man By Frank Fazetta

Meaning
Frank Frazetta is an american fantasy artist that heavily influenced what we know as fantasy today. Frazetta was born on February 9th, 1928 in Brooklyn New York. Frazetta was encouraged to draw from an very early age. This trend continued at age eight when Frazetta’s school teacher noticed his talent. That same year he enrolled in the Brooklyn Academy of Arts.The artists at the academy were completely shocked from the moment they saw his work, Frazetta describes this in an interview,
“I still remember the Professor Michele [Michael] Falanga look of skepticism as I signed in. He was rolling his eyes and you could almost see the thought balloon over his head,
"Oh no! Not another child prodigy!" He sat me down with a pencil and paper
The painting depicts a man thrusting his spear into a monstrous spider. The man is naked surrounded in a pool of blood and red mist. Like many of Frazetta’s works the protagonist is very muscular and stern. He seems very hardened as if fighting is all he knows and it is a heavy burden upon
The spear and whole motion of the man is full of curves and bends while the spiders legs are curled up in various dynamic positions. Spider Man is mostly balanced from left to right you have the spiders legs, the man’s two arms, and also his eyes. However, from top to bottom the painting isn’t very stable. At the top is red mist and feint images of mountains while the bottom is full of blood and the protagonist fighting. A Lot of rhythm is present in this painting. From the spiders legs to the man's arms to the small bubbles of blood. The circles of blood are even repeated, almost everything is rhythmic. The piece has alot of amazing simulated texture. The bulging veins on the man’s arms, the eerie spikes of hair on the spider's legs, and the glistening blood bubbles are all examples of the extraordinary textures. Spider Man is not full of a whole different objects it is quite simplistic which makes it so appealing. There are only really three main objects within the piece. The Man would be the first largest mass, the spiders legs would be the second, and the pool of blood the third. Many of the spacing techniques are used by Frazetta excluding register line, diminishing size, and scientific perspective. Overlapping is used frequently the man’s body is constantly overlapping the spiders limbs, also the ends of the limbs overlap themselves. Foreshortening is used alot on the man's figure. The man’s arms, legs, and face