Jenny Saville: Fat Art


Her paintings (in general) are grotesque, fleshy, and unusual, but they're beautiful.

Since her debut in 1992, Saville's focus has remained on the female body, slightly deviating into subjects with "floating or indeterminant gender," painting large scale paintings of transsexuals and transvestites. Her published sketches and documents include surgical photographs of liposuction, trauma victims, deformity correction, disease states and transgender patients (Wikipedia).

I love how she chooses to paint women in unflattering angles and poses. I love her audacity in distorting flesh and showing it in a way that is definitely not ordinary and unoriginal. It compels the viewers of her paintings to push through the images and appreciate the big, fat, bulges as to what she had created them for in the first place: ART.

Here are some of her original works. I only included some because most are NSFW (Not Safe For Work). If you want to see more images of her paintings, just Google "Jenny Saville" and a myriad of it would appear.

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Larger than life: One of her actual works (entitled Juncture) displayed in an auction house in London


[I saw] lots of big women. Big white flesh in shorts and T-shirt. It was good to see because they had the physicality I was interested in. --Jenny Saville


Zaftig Lovin',
Stacy