essay on Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville studied at the Slade School of fine art between 1992 and 1993. She has dedicated her career to traditional figurative oil painting. Her painterly style has been compared to Lucian Freud and Rubens. Her paintings are usually much larger than life size and are strongly pigmented. Her paintings give a highly sensual impression of the surface of the skin as well as the mass of the body. In some of her work she adds marks onto the body, such as white ‘’target’’ rings. I find Jenny Saville’s work really fascinating to look at, I really like how she uses different tones and the marks she uses are really effective Although I find her paintings quite disturbing. She tends to paint trauma victims, deformity correction, disease states and transgender patients. This is unique but she also has the same style as Lucas Freud and Rubens they both paint in a similar way to Jenny Saville and tend to use the same rough mark markings. Jenny was born in Cambridge in 1970, she is an English painter and is known for her large –scale painted of naked women. She works and lives between London and Palermo. Jenny Saville tends to focus on the female body, painting large-scale paintings. She has painted work of transsexuals and transvestites. She spent many hours observing plastic surgery in New York. When I first had to research Jenny Saville I didn’t like her work because of the disturbing paintings but actually got to like them in a weird way because how detailed they are and how well she uses real life images and her style of painting is really unusual.  These painting are real women and real problems that’s what I like about Jenny’s work. She isn’t paintings what isn’t real. Her work has influenced me because I enjoy painting in this kind of style.