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Created: June 22, 2003
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Art and Criminology

Site Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, June 2003.
"Fair use" encouraged.

In the process of searching for "abstract art and spiritualism" I came across Ted Knerr's Art-Spirit Site, where I found amongst the Walls Group of his friends some of the work of Bob Drouin, along with his comments on that work:

By Bob Drouin
Rape and Murder
Early 1980's
Oilstick on paper, 9 x 8 in.

Bob Druin's Rape and Murder reminded me of one of my old favorites by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, one of the German Expressionists. I know that I once copied his The Murderer, and maybe I'll find that copy for you someday. But meanwhile, I thought I'd hunt for an image somewhere of Kirchner's lithograph. To my delight I discovered that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has put its wonderful print collection on line, and there I found the print I had once copied: You might also want to look at Bob Druin's cicada drawing and his story about the cicada.

(c) Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Courtesy Ingeborg & Dr. Wolfgang Henze-Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern
Der Mörder(The murderer)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.

Der Mörder (The murderer) was printed in 1914, and can be found in the The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at LACMA.

Discussion Questions

1. Would a photo provide the same effect for either or both of the paintings represented?

2. What choices do drawing and/or painting allow that alter the effect?

   Focus, framing, form, pattern, color. All these shape our experience of the painting. . . .