Differences And Similarities Between Saville And Emin

Both Saville and Emin are prominent contemporary British artists, who use feminine narratives in their work. Whilst Emin does this through a combination of mediums, both two and three dimensional, Saville only uses two dimensional painting as her medium of choice.
Generally Emin’s artworks are installed openly in the gallery space, enabling the audience to view each installation from multiple perspectives and becoming well acquainted with the artworks. Saville’s large scale artworks, on the other hand are painted in her studio prior to being displayed in galleries, with the large scale having the effect of the artwork looming over the audience.
Emin’s art is autobiographical in nature with direct relevance to her life experiences and feelings. Artworks such as My
With art history confining women to roles of models, painted or sculptured from a male viewpoint, as passive and beautiful. With the rise of feminism at the end of the nineteenth century, the role of women in the art world started to shift. Women’s roles slowly moved from behind, to in front of the easel. It would however, be many years before women’s narratives were beginning to be told. In the late twentieth century in Britain, artists such as Tracey Emin and Jenny Saville, as part of the Young British Artists group started creating artworks that expressed female points of view and experiences. These artists have aligned themselves with feminist cultural theory, in the narrative of female perspectives.
Emin’s artworks whilst sexually explicit and confronting to her audiences, are not demonstrating a search for gender equality. Emin’s art, such as, Everyone I Ever Slept With, 1963- 1995, My Bed, 1998, and Automatic Orgasm, 2001, are clearly autobiographical, self-expressive, and confessional in nature, with the content of these artworks derived from her life events and personal