I just ordered this quite amazing book of Jenny Saville's art the other day. Anticipation fills me. Jenny Saville (38) is and English Painter known for her larger than life figurative oil paintings. Many of them being self portraits. The lucky girl's entire post graduate senior show at The Slade School of Art in 1993, was bought by famous gallery owner, Charles Saatchi. He then had her busy commissioning work for the next two years. She has been compared to the great painter Lucian Freud (who i will be writing about soon). She now lives and works in Sicily, Italy.
What i really like about her work is the beauty she finds in brutally honest subject matter. Painting strangely sensual, soft, highly pigmented colors and tones which can calm down the sometimes gross or abnormal figurative compositions. Saville has focused much of her work on self portraits, obese figures, trauma victims, plastic surgery procedures, disease states, deformity reconstructions, and transgenders. In other words, "I'm really into her!"
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