So I decided to simply type in Killer Art into a google search and most of the links that I came across actually turned out to be serial killers who PAINT! I found a blog that showed the Top Ten Serial Killer Artists and my favorite on the blog is this one:
And it came with the following bio.
Alfred Gaynor
Between 1995 and 1998, Alfred Gaynor murdered at least 8 women in the Springfield, Massachusetts area. He was known to pose his victims in horrifying ways in order to make the discovery of their bodies as traumatizing as possible. This drawing of his, entitled “Murder Beach”, is exactly what one would expect to see coming from the mind of a serial killer who has been given a box of crayons and an abundance of free time.
What I found the most interesting about this is the fact that Gaynor posed the bodies which (CW: dark and demented and excuse me for this but...) means this man's work - killing people - is transformed into art. He managed to evoke a feeling from the viewer and although the medium is dead body, it does initiate an interesting debate: can we call the placement of the bodies killer art?
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