Photo Analysis

Title: Unkown
Artist: Jenny Saville
Date: 1995/1996
Oil on canvas

Title: Fulcrum
Artist: Jenny Saville
Date: 1999
Oil on canvas

I like these images as the nudes are very exaggerated, I think the images show how women
perceive their bodies as they feel they are a lot bigger than they actually are but once again it has been exaggerated but Saville is trying to make expectation of what is perfect more appropriate compared to a skinny women. The image on the right is actually a painting of what I can see of 3 women squashed up against and laying on each other. The image on the right is a painting where the models face has been pushed up against glass, how the face is deformed and flawed as the models face would not look like this usually but due to the glass it has been altered. There are many different tones of colours in the paintings that have been layered and are overlapping with the marks of paintbrushes which have been dragged and twisted around in different motions on the canvas but the tones are bland and pastel coloured based. The actual paintings of the skin its-self is quite violent, harsh and bruised.

Title: Plan
Artist: Jenny Saville
Date: 1993
Oil on canvas

This painting is a nude portrait of Saville herself and has been intentionally made to look large, even with large breasts which have to be held up in order to see the rest of the body. The lines drawn on her body remind me of the marks surgeons make on you before you are about to have liposuction done or the targets on during archery. It brings out the idea that the the skin needs to be cut away because model is flawed where she is fat and not perfect and skinnier, like a males or the media's typical fantasy of the perfect body, which shows the artist concerns on the matter. I also can see a sense of vulnerability as she is naked and using her arm to cover herself however in contrast to this at the same time you can see the strength and power in the painting being able to bare all.