Talk:Jenny Saville

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[edit] thank you thank you thank you

Where's the delete button? This is the worst article I've ever seen. And that's saying something. Jamie

It may be a bad article, but it's about a legitimate subject. I'll do a little research and expand it so that it's at least a decent stub. Bedesboy 22:53, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

I expanded this a bit. She's one of my favourite artists and I studied her during my MA so it wasn't hard. It's my first ever edit so be kind! Do you think it needs more detail or is it ok now? I am currently trying to contact her directly to get permission to use some of her images to illustrate the article - I think it's vital for a subject like this. I want to use Propped (1992) Closed Contact No 10 (2002) and one other painting at least - if I can get permission! Penguin2006 06:18, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Excellent, thank you thank you thank you :) Jamie

[edit] Tell me, Why?

I can see that she has great talent, and what she does with paint is absolutely amazing but I still don't understand why it has to be so crued. Tell me, Why?

It all depends on your opinion of 'crued'. IMHO, it's not, but I can see why people think it is. I think she's trying to get across that big can be beautiful, too, even though most of the world doesn't believe so. My opinion, anyway. Anyone else? Eeve3 00:26, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Man, a lot of people talk about the "body politics" of her work but that's kind of beside the point for me. It's definitely in there, sure, and important (though I don't see where people get "big can be beautiful" from -- to me the political angle is precisely that these paintings are aggressively NOT pretty: the idea that sex appeal is necessary to get or deserve attention is especially pervasive lately) but what interests me more is how she gets at the materiality of flesh, the weight and substance of physical being in a way that more straightforward naturalism, paradoxically, tends to obscure. (There's an obvious comparison here to Francis Bacon which Google tells me has, indeed, been made, apparently by the artist herself.) Also of note: she's actually pretty cute!@!!!!!@

Yes. Yes, she is pretty cute! ;) Ceoil (talk) 00:05, 6 February 2008 (UTC)