Saville's fleshy oil portraits subvert conventional understandings of beauty standards
The renowned British artist Jenny Saville explores the centuries-old tradition of body imagery. Ancient or Christian iconographies serve as a model for her exploration of composition and space-figure-surface arrangements. She is ultimately concerned with the development of a hybrid canon of forms that uses its models as a starting point for updating what has been handed down historically. Saville's depictions of the human figure oscillate between the idealization of form and its deconstruction. Drawing inspiration from art history--from Old Masters such Leonardo and Raphael to Schiele, Picasso, Bacon and Freud--she creates paintings charact Devamını Göster