Jenny Saville

This piece called “Ruben’s Flap” was painted by Jenny. Her style of painting reminds of a more hand painting technique that basically does not stay within the refines and lines of her pieces. This could also be a statement in which Jenny wants us to see how we see, and that is how we all are narrow minded and do not see outside what we consider ”Beauty” to actually be.

Using almost creamy and warmer shades of colour, Jenny creates this look within the majority of her paintings. This piece named “Rosetta” probably focuses our minds upon the sad blue shades of this woman’s emotion and figure thus making us really try understand what she is going through.

She feels to me like a feeling almost of resentment, and perhaps is again a human personification of the human reaction to things today within society.

A fairly newer piece from Jenny, it is called “The Mothers” and was produced sometime in 2011. The oils upon the canvas resemble jenny’s style very well and show her soft, yet aggressive style of painting that spreads out across the canvas. Especially within this piece you can see the spreading and distorted black lines covering the piece, and it breaks up the normal flow and image of the piece.

It also could be a message into what the actual subject of this mother is feeling which is maybe distraction, tiredness and stress under the burdens of being a caring and good mother.

Claimed as a feminist view upon the female body, a lot of pieces of jenny’s work really trys to show the true female form and this is shown in this very weird way. But with a lot of her tones, shapes, and the female she uses within the painting itself is in fact quite contradictory. Why would she want to show the true female form but show it in such a grotesque way like she does?

It is an interesting point to take from a lot of her work and thus to sit and think why is something only she can answer really.