Jenny Saville And Pablo Picasso Analysis

Both Jenny Saville and Pablo Picasso have produced significant pieces of work, showing their view and portrayal of women. Jenny Saville is a contemporary British artist born in 1970, whereas Picasso is the co-founder of the cubist movement, producing abstract work. Despite these movements differences, both artists have produced work on a similar ground, using women as their subject. Saville's most recent exhibition was in 2012 at the Modern Art Oxford Norton Museum of Art, in Florida. I recently saw Picassos work at the Tate Modern where his work is currently on display, I was particularly interested in the piece "Nude Woman with Necklace".
I have chosen Jenny Saville's piece "Branded" (1992) where she has used her own face and presented
In the gallery, it was displayed on a white wall, in a 1181 x 1663 x 62 mm frame. The initial bright colours of the painting caused it to stand out, and the abstract shapes made it obvious that Picasso was the artist. The painting is rather vulgar, as the woman is laying in a reclined position, where all of her assets are on display. In most of Picasso's work, he tries to represent and show off beauty within his artwork, where as this image crosses beauty with what may also be seen as violence. Within the oil painting, there is a lot of reds and blues. The red may represent passion, domination and danger, with the blue representing coldness, sorrow, insecurity or innocence. As it is abstract, it means that everyone will interpret the artwork differently, as everyone will see different meanings as the answer isn't just black and white or explained to
Picasso's painting, is not a self portrait, but instead a painting of his second wife in an abstract and nonrepresentational way, it has a similar theme of body distortion to Saville's work. As the paintings are of naked women being represented in a vigorous and sexualised way, it can cause an uncomfortable feeling when viewing it, but I think that this feeling is intended. Picasso was in his late eighties when he produced "Nude Woman With Necklace" and in his later years it was where he found his new style of painting, they show freedom and eccentrics, his paintings showed that even with his old age his talent and abilities have not lacked in