YEAR 11 CASE STUDY- JENNY SAVILLE b. 1970
"When I made Plan [showing the lines drawn on a woman's body to designate where liposuction would be performed], I was forever explaining what liposuction was. It seemed so violent then. These days, I doubt there's anyone in the western world who doesn't know what liposuction is. Surgery was a minority sport; now that notion of hybridity is everywhere. There's almost a new race: the plastic surgery race" (Taken from website).
Prop, 1992.
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Strategy, 1994.
"The artist is best known for her paintings of monumental women, as her paintings leave them baring it all from inside out. Her nude portraits reveal the vulnerable side of her women, while still leaving them empowered as they are courageous enough to get naked" (Taken from website).
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“A large female body has a power, it occupies a physical space, yet there’s an anxiety about it. It has to be hidden” (Taken from website).
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Saville is interested in the belief some people hold that their 'natural' self is not their 'real' self. As a result, she has been preoccupied with what she calls the 'in-betweenness'.
"That's why transsexuals and hermaphrodites have become interesting to me. I want to be a painter of modern life, and modern bodies, those that emulate contemporary life, they're what I find most interesting" (Taken from website). |
" I like to, I like that sense of awe. I'm small, so to make something huge just fills me up. I love that ability to make something, to make marks across the surface and have the physicality of it take over my body. I like art that's not really intellectual, something that has to do with sensation" (Taken from website).
ACTIVITY:
PRACTICE:
1. Examine Jenny Saville's artmaking practice.
In your response consider: her inspiration and process, the materials and techniques she uses, and the size of her works.
Refer to at least two artworks in your answer.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK:
2. How has Saville explored the relationships between the artwork, world and audience?
Refer to at least one artwork in your response.
FRAMES:
3. Investigate how a cultural point of view is represented in at least two artworks created by Saville.
4. Explain why Saville's artworks may challenge the audience.
Refer to at least one artwork in your response.
1. Examine Jenny Saville's artmaking practice.
In your response consider: her inspiration and process, the materials and techniques she uses, and the size of her works.
Refer to at least two artworks in your answer.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK:
2. How has Saville explored the relationships between the artwork, world and audience?
Refer to at least one artwork in your response.
FRAMES:
3. Investigate how a cultural point of view is represented in at least two artworks created by Saville.
4. Explain why Saville's artworks may challenge the audience.
Refer to at least one artwork in your response.
Created by N. Usher for Gilroy Catholic College, 2014.