a glance in the mirror
My friend Jodi introduced me to Jenny Saville's work back in 2006 when she was doing a photography project based on Saville. I immediately was drawn to her grotesque portrayal of women and their bodies.
"Jenny Saville's monumental paintings wallow in the glory of expansiveness. . . Her exaggerated nudes point up, with an agonizing frankness, the disparity between the way women are percieved and the way they feel about their bodies. . . Saville paints skin with all the subtlety of a Swedish massage; violent, painful, bruising, bone crunching." (Saatchi Gallery)
images via google
posted by Rackk and Ruin at
6.4.09
9 Comments:
absolutely stunning.
thanks for putting her on my radar.
Oh god. Not another saville.... (Sorry, it's just that, at my school, if you're doing a figures project, the art teacher forces EVERYONE to do a saville transcription/analysis. And it gets a little tiring. Seeing like....500 projects with large portions concentrated on saville)
Before my art department ruined it, I really quite liked her.
i have been obsessing over her work as well.
insanity!
these are BRUTAL. excellent post.
I love the ones that give the illusion of being crushed against the glass.
xoxo
Stephanie
www.modernantoinette.blogspot.com
These are...grotesque. There's simply no other word for them. Consequently, I love them.
these are really something, very brutal and upfront...love it! thanks for all the great art intros :)
They're extremely raw and honest. So painful to look at them but I couldn't take my eyes off of them.
interesting images.very blunt.
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