Research on Jenny Saville
Source: “Jenny Saville: The Body Recovered” by Laurence Noel which is part of the 6th volume of CUJAH, Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History.
Observation Table:
Observation—————————Quote————————Interpretation
Saville’s painting style challenges “Jenny Saville have participated By exaggerating the bounds of flesh
traditional depictions of femininity. in the rescue of the female body from creates sense of unknown, gets political with
its suffocating historical baggage.” bounds.
Saville identifies more with a fascination “Saville thinks of herself more as a Through flesh you can re-appropriate the
of flesh more so than the female form. painter of the flesh than as a feminist activist.” human form.
In warping something so sculpted by society “to translate her own perception of woman: Deconstructing something into
beyond recognition and into another realm of an ambiguous, unfixed combination of its core can make the big picture
emotion, new truths cane discovered within it. “the obscenity of the human with a strong clearer than ever.
hint of transcendent beauty.”
