Marko djurdjevic analysis

Composition

The composition is dynamic and fun, the story being told of a man waiting to meet his love carrying roses while unsuspectingly being targeted by a giant spider is an awesome one. Right away the composition is at a dutch tilt which makes the piece dynamic along with the fact that we are looking up at the figures, however the foreshortening is not so drastic that it is distracting. 

This upward view we see is a great opportunity to use the lines that run parallel to his body to point upward at the threat hanging above him. The spider returns the favor with the claws pointing down at him from 6 different points. We even see one big sweeping spider leg that crosses over a third of the page to point us back in the direction of the man opening the door. Notice the rhythm in his hand has a swooping like rhythm that connects the knuckles of his hand to his arm and we follow the curve of the arm up to the face.

The rest of the composition is cut off on the left side where we see the wall creating another strong parallel that intersects with the spider legs and the spider webbing in the background which adds variety and depth to the piece. The lighting for this scene does a great job of highlighting the figure and some of the spiders legs as well as details in the background such as the staircase that has a similar rhythm of connecting to the figure and the light source which sits at eye level with our focal point area.

Value 

The value range is that of high contrast because high contrast is a way of creating an image that has tension in it. When thinking of what the image will be it can be helpful to think what is the emotion I'm trying to invoke and allow that to tell you what kind of value and color scheme you will use. Obviously here we have a moment that represents fear and he captures this by keeping our focal points shrouded in the darkest values and using the light to cut the silhouette of the figure out of the door and to provide bounce light that hits the character and illuminates just the most important parts of the spider behind him. 

The silhouette of the figure does not go above a 5 on the value scale and most of the spider is in 0 to 2 on the value scale. the lightest elements being on the light above him and the light reflection on the door next to him. I noticed after not noting down the values of the piece in my analysis for awhile that this was a little more difficult than finding the colors. I seemed to be all over the place with my observations, I crossed out the ones I got wrong

Color 

The high contrast value scheme carries over into his color choices, just like in his other pieces we find the palette is very limited this time to mostly greens and reds with variations of browns and yellows. The focal points all fall into the red and green though and as we get further away into the shadows we see desaturated greens and yellows for the backdrop and highlight of the spider. The highest key color, yellow, also has the highest value and we see that used here as our light source. Its also important to note that every object has its own color/value in and out of light which keeps it from looking flat.