Marcus Harvey - Myra Analysis.

When we opened into the next project we looked at a piece of work from Marcus Harvey, we looked specifically at his Myra Hindley piece. We went into a depth analysis on where the image used originated and how the image was drafted and created. The image at first was assumed to be a mugshot, but after looking at it for longer we realised there was nothing in the background and she was not holding or suggesting she was holding a board. So we looked at the colours used, and we noticed that it was a black and white and the newspapers used around the time of the moores murders were only printed in black and white. Which suggested that the image was taken from the newspapers. The fact the image was also pixelated gave us certainty that the image was a newpaper based image.

Looking closer at the pixels of the painting we noticed each pixel was made from a child's handprint, which sinisterly yet openly links to the moores murders. The way he did this is he had a cast of a child's handprint and then used this to paint the image.