Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville is a female artist that focuses on how the female body is objectified and how people are made to think that there is only one way it should look. She tries to demonstrate to people how a woman's body varies and non are wrong.

Saville works in a traditional style of oil paintings. However, she paints "obese" models as part of her subject matter.

In her body of work all of her models seem to be self mutilating... whether it be clawing at themselves or pulling at their skin/fat.

These gestures indicate self consciousness and sometimes self hate. These women don't want to be in their bodies, for some reason or another they

have been made to feel like they shouldn't look like this; they are wrong.

Texture seems to be one of Saville's main focuses in her artworks. She uses this to enhance the impurities on the skin. It looks to me quite muddy which also gives the impression of dirtiness.