Jenny Saville
Jenny Saville was born in Cambridge,England in 1970 and went on to become a contemporary British painter after she earned a Degree at the Glasgow school of Art.
After completing her education here in 1992 she was offered a six month scholarship at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio,USA.
Between 1992 and 1993 she also attended the Slade School Of Art.
Whilst in Ohio,Saville immersed herself in her surroundings ,the physicality that the obese women of America had interested her and this inspired her to make this become the main theme of her soon to be well-known artwork. She also preferred to use her own body image in her work,she felt this was of advantage to her because it is reliable as she available all the time. She also likes the idea of being a part of her work.
As a budding feminist herself she also began to read feminist literature which also became a role in her paintings,one in particular is her famous painting "Propped"
"Propped",1992
Saville was a female artist of the 20th century who has given a new insight to self portraiture. She has helped alter the tradition of self portraits and has raised questions about ideal beauty in fine art,expanding it outside of society's value of beauty. She has used her selected subject matter of distorted,in your face bodies and painted her work the way she has to also trigger the viewer to reflect on their own bodies and views and challenge their own response to flaws and imperfections of the human body.
Saville is also a favoured artist because of her use of medium. She has been loyal to using the traditional medium of Oil paint and she has also resisted use of media like video,only using some photography to aid her work. She is very often compared to the famous painter "Lucien Freud" through her use of medium. Being an old form of art,Saville has also found a way to reinvent figure painting and sustain its place as a prominent part of art history. Generally, she paints with a lot of fleshy tones
After completing her education here in 1992 she was offered a six month scholarship at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio,USA.
Between 1992 and 1993 she also attended the Slade School Of Art.
Whilst in Ohio,Saville immersed herself in her surroundings ,the physicality that the obese women of America had interested her and this inspired her to make this become the main theme of her soon to be well-known artwork. She also preferred to use her own body image in her work,she felt this was of advantage to her because it is reliable as she available all the time. She also likes the idea of being a part of her work.
As a budding feminist herself she also began to read feminist literature which also became a role in her paintings,one in particular is her famous painting "Propped"
"Propped",1992
Saville was a female artist of the 20th century who has given a new insight to self portraiture. She has helped alter the tradition of self portraits and has raised questions about ideal beauty in fine art,expanding it outside of society's value of beauty. She has used her selected subject matter of distorted,in your face bodies and painted her work the way she has to also trigger the viewer to reflect on their own bodies and views and challenge their own response to flaws and imperfections of the human body.
Saville is also a favoured artist because of her use of medium. She has been loyal to using the traditional medium of Oil paint and she has also resisted use of media like video,only using some photography to aid her work. She is very often compared to the famous painter "Lucien Freud" through her use of medium. Being an old form of art,Saville has also found a way to reinvent figure painting and sustain its place as a prominent part of art history. Generally, she paints with a lot of fleshy tones