I'd like to say I like her work, because in many ways I do. Honestly, though, she freaks me out. A lot.
I like the way she interprets the body and the mutilation of the body... but the way she expresses it sometimes makes me feel very uncomfortable.
The blood, and the dismemberment is startling, but gets her message across.
"It is interesting to note that Saville once worked in a plastic surgeon's office in New York and frequently visits a London medical museum as member of a pathology group. She shares with Francis Bacon a fascination for collecting pictures found in old medical journals of bruises, scars, gun shot wounds, pictures of deformities, and traces of disease which leave inscriptions on a body over time, like a memory, or a mark on a canvas."
http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/24th-street-2003-04-jenny-saville/#/images/4/
the picture above scares me the most ^
i can't put it on my blog, but there you go.
the way she paints can be nice, but i don't personally like it. the strong tonal contrasts are too abrasive, and i do not personally like the overwhelming-ness of the warm colours.
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