Artist field note

Jenny Saville

Paint makes flesh exceed every idealizing frame.

Appears inThe Body
Reverse by Jenny Saville
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Reverse

2002-2003

A tightly cropped face turns portraiture into a field of smeared proximity.

The five in one idea

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