JENNY SAVILLE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Saville

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jun/09/jenny-saville-painter-modern-bodies

Jenny Saville was born on 7th May 1970 in Cambridge, England. She is a contemporary British painter known for her large scale painted nudes of women. She works and lives in Oxford, England. She has dedicated her career to traditional figurative oil paintings. He painting style is very similar to Lucian Freud and Rubens. Her paintings are much larger than life size and they are usually very strongly pigmented. They give a highly sensual impression of the surface of the skin as well as the mass of the body. Her published sketches and documents include surgical photographs of liposuction, trauma victims, deformity correction, disease states and transgender patients.

The image above by Jenny Saville was done  by using a photocopier. She pressed her face against the glass and tried to distort it as much as possible. I will be using this concept as inspiration for my first shoot. I aim to distort a figure’s face as much as possible by using different materials such as clingfilm and cloth. This will be my first representation of body image. I chose to start simple, and just focus on the face rather then the whole body.