Jenny Saville

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contemporary artist figurative painter human painter

Jenny Saville is a British contemporary painter renowned for her large-scale, unflinching depictions of the human body, particularly female flesh, which challenge conventional ideals of beauty.

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Label Occurrences
Jenny Saville canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf contemporary artist ⓘ
figurative painter ⓘ
human ⓘ
painter ⓘ
artisticFocus female body ⓘ
flesh ⓘ
human body ⓘ
associatedWith Charles Saatchi ⓘ
Saatchi Gallery ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1970 ⓘ
educatedAt Glasgow School of Art ⓘ
Slade School of Fine Art ⓘ
familyName Savile ⓘ
surface form: Saville
fieldOfWork painting ⓘ
genre figurative art ⓘ
givenName Jenny ⓘ
hasChild 2 (number of children) ⓘ
hasExhibitedAt Gagosian Gallery ⓘ
Royal Academy of Arts ⓘ
Saatchi Gallery ⓘ
National Galleries of Scotland ⓘ
surface form: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
influencedBy Francis Bacon ⓘ
Lucian Freud ⓘ
Peter Paul Rubens ⓘ
Titian ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName English ⓘ
movement Young British Artists ⓘ
contemporary art ⓘ
name Jenny Saville self-link ⓘ
nationality British ⓘ
notableFor challenging conventional ideals of beauty ⓘ
large-scale depictions of the human body ⓘ
paintings of female flesh ⓘ
notableWork Branded ⓘ
Closed Contact ⓘ
Fulcrum ⓘ
Plan ⓘ
Propped ⓘ
placeOfBirth CAMBRIDGE ⓘ
surface form: Cambridge

England ⓘ
residence Oxford ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ
sexOrGender female ⓘ
spouse Paul McPhail ⓘ
style distorted figuration ⓘ
large-scale painting ⓘ
unflinching realism ⓘ
workSubject beauty standards ⓘ
gender ⓘ
identity ⓘ
obesity ⓘ
plastic surgery ⓘ

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Glasgow School of Art → hasNotableAlumni → Jenny Saville ⓘ
Slade School of Fine Art → hasAlumni → Jenny Saville ⓘ
Young British Artists → associatedPerson → Jenny Saville ⓘ
Jenny Saville → name → Jenny Saville self-link ⓘ
Journal for Plague Lovers → hasCoverArtBy → Jenny Saville ⓘ