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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville

Saville, Jenny
Risaliti, Sergio

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ISBN10: 883665083X
ISBN13: 9788836650835
Publisher: Silvana Editoriale
Published: Nov 7 2023
Pages: 304
Weight: 4.70
Height: 1.30 Width: 9.60 Depth: 12.50
Language: English

A career-spanning survey of the British painter who has reinvented the nude with forceful brushstrokes and anatomical precision

The internationally lauded British painter Jenny Saville transcends the boundaries of classical figuration and modern abstraction in her depictions of the human form. Colossal naked bodies dominate her oeuvre, rendered with all the imperfections of flesh intact. Indeed, Saville is deeply interested in the resilience and fragility of the human body, as well as its societal implications and taboos. Collecting material from pathology textbooks, plastic surgery manuals, chronicles of injuries and burns and similar publications, Saville often adds an observational perspective to her work by attending surgery demonstrations and visiting butcheries. She expresses this perspective through an aggressive use of scale, brushy, wide strokes and textures that extend long figurative traditions in painting, linking her to the forceful modernist style of Willem de Kooning and Francis Bacon. Her work also dialogs with the masters of the Italian Renaissance, Michelangelo in particular.

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