Jenny Saville Real Art

My reason for working around such a controversial subject is my huge fascination for the complexity of the human body, I feel that the abnormality in recent contemporary art is a feature worth recognition and the great step of progression within art culture shows no boundaries for what is considered ‘real art’. In many forms, art is requested for more than something to admire, over the years many movements such as Cubism, Abstract, Surrealism and Contemporary have evolved into visual language to communicate with their audiences and share a universal belief or experience. Many movements are formed through people’s life influences and usually become the embodiments of people’s pieces. I actively agree that art is a method of revealing emotional
Barry Martin Weintraub perform plastic surgery operations in New York City. Saville has always considered herself an observer of body and movement and discusses her work as a regurgitation of how she has seen the human form be manipulated. Many of her pieces explore the malleability of the body and particularly what people will endure to change them. In a Channel 4 interview she describes her time watching these extreme modifications as “it was so violent to watch a breast implant and a surgeon’s fist inside a woman’s body moving this flesh around that it was a
His works have a dark, mournful quality to them releasing a sense of grief and suffering. Boltanski’s use of mundane materials such as glass, lightbulbs and electrical chords serve a raw physicality to the viewer and a reminder of intolerable human suffering. Boltanski began creating such pieces in 1986 when his work advanced onto being primarily photographs, his use of this medium became a commemoration for the innocent children who were murdered in the Holocaust and the lights resemble that of Yahrzeit candle to remember the many who lost their lives. Due to the form of his work being 3D, the audience interacts with the piece as a physical thing and the perception of his installations can be much more striking than that of 2D Art. The overlapping trail of cables fusing his images together adds a slight disturbance to the display and provides many of his works with a fragmented, uneasy aura. Boltanski creates such a varied response to his work by confronting the ugly truth towards the treatment of Jews. His choice to use portraits of Jewish school children as a representation of innocence is a sensitive subject for people viewing his work and very much hits the spectator with a sense of realization and