Another artist that i have done research on to do with hand/finger painting, is Marcus Harvey in 1995 he created one of the most iconic yet the most disgusted painting in all off britian.
Myra Hindley was the notorious lover and accomplice of Ian Brady the serial torturer and killer of children in the mid 1960’s. The pair were known as the Moors Murderes because they buried their victims bodies on Saddleworth Moor in Yorkshire,
When Harvey’s his 11ft by 9ft work was hung from september 8th till december 28th 1997 in the Sensation exhibition of young british artists at the royal academy of art in London, because of the work that he has created he got a lot of cynical exploitation levelled against him and the work its self got vandalised by many people.
Below is a picture of the paintinf itself
To create this painting Harvey used a full frontal photograph of Myra ,that was taken by the police in the 1960’s that has been reproduced in the mass media many times over, after he had enlarged the image to the humongous size, then went in with black, white and grey acrylic paint to create the painting using a child’s open palm print but he used a plaster cast of the hand not the real hand itself and got to work creating this huge portrait of the criminal.
From doing research i found wanted to construct Hindleys painting using the hand prints from the group of which her victims where selected, to show that the painting reiterates the idea that she is inexorably marked by her crimes and that she can never erase the traces of her and Brady’s victims and that their hands reach out from their graves in reaproach and accusation.
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