Saville, Jenny

artist

Jenny Saville ( 1970 , Cambridge , UK , lives and works in London ) is a contemporary British artist , one of the Young British artists . Known for the monumental images of women.

At the end of her graduate education, Saville, the leading British art collector Charles Saatchi, bought her work and placed an order for the next two years. In 1994, the artist spent many hours watching plastic surgery in New York . Saville does not correspond to the usual ideas of the public about Young British artists , as she devoted her work to traditional figurative oil painting. Her painting style is compared with the manner of Lucien Freud and Rubens . The figures on her canvases are usually larger than their actual size. Strata of the paint give a sensual sensation of the skin surface and body weight. Saville sometimes adds marks to the body, such as white rings.

Since her debut in 1992, Saville's attention has shifted from the female body to topics of "unspecified gender." The artist paints large-format paintings of transgender and transvestites . Her published outline and documents include photographs of liposuction, trauma, pain, and transgender people ^[1] . Her painting “Strategy” (South Face / Front Face / North Face) appeared on the cover of the third album of Manic Street Preachers , “ The Holy Bible ” ^[2] , and “Stare” (2005) on the cover of the ninth album, “ Journal For Plague Lovers ”(2009) ^[3] .