Jenny Saville's work left me feeling uneasy at first glance, there seemed to be mass amounts of paintings that looked like mangled lumps of flesh and in some cases blood but i was still captivated by the look of the images and how she had captured the fleshy realism of the subjects she had painted.
Jenny Saville is an artist who is known mainly for her large oil based paintings of naked women, however she doesn't conform to portraying today's 'ideal' figure, "I wasn't interested in admired or idealised beauty.", instead she paints obscure images of obese women in destorted and obscure positions, she captures the shape and contortions in her paintings incredibly well by painting layers upon layers with different tones and shades, this helps create a look of texture and depth to her images. She has never realy drifted away from her love of her favourite medium, oil on canvas, but she has tryed other ways to portray her fascination of skin and flesh such as photography, her images of naked bodies pressed on a sheet of glass to create a deformed shape really show the distance she will go to get a true in depth look at the human body and how it can bend and be altered. Jenny saville spent a short time observing the work of plastic surgeon Dr. Barry Martin Weintraub and this is where she got alot of the inspriation for her paintings and sketches of trauma victims and transgender patients.
Jenny Saville has incorperated her own life experiences into her work and created a style that is different and original, "When I was little, I'd go to school and be told what to do. And I'd do it, but it always annoyed me.". She was born in the 1970's and through the 1980's the body and how you portrayed yourself was a very important part of your day to day life, "Everyone was obsessed with the body - it was all about dieting, gym, the body beautiful.", this is why she tries to show that there is feeling and more to the body then just shape and she wants to capture as much emotion in her artwork as possible.
It was interesting to look at Jenny savilles work and compare her images to the ones we see in advertisments and mainly on television, i think she wants to show the reality of all different kinds of body shapes, genders and skin tones and not just one side of the human form that the media depicts.
Biography:
http://www.brain-juice.com/cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=77
Interview by Suzie Mackenzie:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2005/oct/22/art.friezeartfair2005
Jenny Saville is an artist who is known mainly for her large oil based paintings of naked women, however she doesn't conform to portraying today's 'ideal' figure, "I wasn't interested in admired or idealised beauty.", instead she paints obscure images of obese women in destorted and obscure positions, she captures the shape and contortions in her paintings incredibly well by painting layers upon layers with different tones and shades, this helps create a look of texture and depth to her images. She has never realy drifted away from her love of her favourite medium, oil on canvas, but she has tryed other ways to portray her fascination of skin and flesh such as photography, her images of naked bodies pressed on a sheet of glass to create a deformed shape really show the distance she will go to get a true in depth look at the human body and how it can bend and be altered. Jenny saville spent a short time observing the work of plastic surgeon Dr. Barry Martin Weintraub and this is where she got alot of the inspriation for her paintings and sketches of trauma victims and transgender patients.
Jenny Saville has incorperated her own life experiences into her work and created a style that is different and original, "When I was little, I'd go to school and be told what to do. And I'd do it, but it always annoyed me.". She was born in the 1970's and through the 1980's the body and how you portrayed yourself was a very important part of your day to day life, "Everyone was obsessed with the body - it was all about dieting, gym, the body beautiful.", this is why she tries to show that there is feeling and more to the body then just shape and she wants to capture as much emotion in her artwork as possible.
It was interesting to look at Jenny savilles work and compare her images to the ones we see in advertisments and mainly on television, i think she wants to show the reality of all different kinds of body shapes, genders and skin tones and not just one side of the human form that the media depicts.
Biography:
http://www.brain-juice.com/cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=77
Interview by Suzie Mackenzie:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2005/oct/22/art.friezeartfair2005
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