hi, do you know of any artists that paint or draw pictures of criminal activity?

Question

help! im doing course work at the moment and my ideas have been directed in that direction, please help! cheers x x

Answer 1

Criminologists do that kind of work, based on fitting people with crimes and drawing their profiles. Its very interesting, have u thought about going to the library? they have loadsa of information on this.

Good luck though Let me know how u get on

Answer 2

Yes me, I paint traffic wardens in my pictures, and parking tickets, and that is modern highway robbery!

But you may try Cézanne’s ''The Murder'' or Sickert’s ''Jack the Ripper’s Bedroom''. The common theme for these two rather sinister paintings is murder.

Cezanne work was painted in 1867 and is an early, dark example of a theme explored in a novel by Zola.

Walter Sickert’s interpretation of Jack the Rippers Bedroom (1906) is a shadowy, macabre piece, which has led some to believe that Sickert was Jack the Ripper.

John Kay, Edinburgh's cartoonist c1790 was fond of drawing the cities most infamous subjects.

Myra Hindley has been painted a few times Gary Cartwright, had to change his address after displaying his work in Manchester. The most controversial was Marcus Harvey’s from hundreds of a child's handprints.

Answer 3

William Hogarth.

Answer 4

srry i dont know