Artist field note

Jenny Saville

Paint makes flesh exceed every idealizing frame.

Appears inThe Body
Fulcrum by Jenny Saville
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Fulcrum

1999

Interlocked bodies form an overwhelming mass of weight, vulnerability and painterly force.

The five in one idea

Saville restored the painted body as unruly matter that resists beauty's prescribed dimensions.