Mini post: Jenny Saville

Focusing her work on human perception of the body, Jenny Saville uses oil paint in heavy layers to create a representation of human flesh and the ways in which the body is effortlessly reconstructed; through surgery, in cadavers, historical sculptures, and even bodies of whom "challenge gender dichotomies."  Saville was born in 1970 in Cambridge, England and studied at the Glasgow School of Art where she was mainly interested on the imperfections of the human body. She has seen first-hand how uncomplicated it was to reassemble the human body, and the different ways in which we become vulnerable to these changes. 

Jenny Saville, Propped, 1992  

Jenny Saville combines classical figuration and modern abstraction to create her work. While she creates images that represent her perception of the human body, she challenges paintings and sculptors and how society sees the body. While she challenges these, she also has an appreciation for how the body has been represented in different eras and cultures. Her perception of the human body might not fit into society's norm, however it comes to show that her work is unlike those that came before her. She poses an important issue through her work, which is that there is no correct form of the body. Our bodies are ever changing and never constrained to one particular template that some art might repeatedly throw at us. She refuses to fit into the stereotype of how the human body is perceived, instead she "refuses to hide." 

Jenny Saville, The Mothers, 2011

Jenny Saville, Trace, 1993

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