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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Visual Art Here's that Saville in its Maximum Slogglory

Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:54 AM

Jenny Saville (b. 1970)
Strategy, 1994
oil on three canvas panels
108 x 250 1/2 inches overall
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica

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We really did not need to see this again.

Posted by Skinny on November 19, 2008 at 11:57 AM

Does Oprah know about this?

Posted by Vince on November 19, 2008 at 11:58 AM

why do you hate your readers?

Posted by maxsolomon on November 19, 2008 at 12:00 PM

Yikes.

Posted by Rotten666 on November 19, 2008 at 12:14 PM

Is the bruising caused by gravity or by justifiably-disgusted domestic abuse?

Posted by jackie treehorn on November 19, 2008 at 12:18 PM

now that i've read about her, i find that it was in my hometown of Cincinnati that she had her artistic epiphany. she was inspired by the legions of the morbidly obese who populate that shithole.

Posted by maxsolomon on November 19, 2008 at 1:01 PM

Yeah, Jackie @5. Fat people totally deserve to be beaten. That totally makes sense.

Posted by clementine on November 19, 2008 at 1:02 PM

maxsolomon is an asshole, the armpit of this blog, just like ohio is to the usa, he needs to go back home, deal with issues

Posted by Your Name There on November 19, 2008 at 1:15 PM

Is she the psycho-Christian from "Wife-Swap"?

Posted by elswinger on November 19, 2008 at 1:24 PM

i first i thought that was me as painted by lucian freud. whew! was i relieved.

Posted by scary tyler moore on November 19, 2008 at 1:50 PM

Art about fatties? Gross.

Posted by S on November 19, 2008 at 2:37 PM

you know you all, there was a time when fat people were considered attractive--becuase, ya know, they had money and stuff.

just something to think about.

love you!

Posted by hey hey on November 19, 2008 at 2:54 PM

wow
justifiably-disgusted domestic abuse?

that is harder to read than it is to look at this art

Posted by 4f...sake on November 19, 2008 at 2:57 PM

what is wrong with you people?
Jenny Saville is only one of THE BEST ARTISTS ALIVE TODAY.
I'm sorry you can't see that.

Posted by citrus on November 19, 2008 at 3:01 PM

Wait, I'm late to the party. Why am I supposed to hate this?

Posted by Fill In The Blanks! on November 19, 2008 at 3:08 PM

@10 You kill, STM

These are gorgeous paintings, and getting exactly the response I would have expected.

Posted by itsmarkmitchell'sfatbelly on November 19, 2008 at 4:13 PM

You fat-haters are completely stupid and bigoted.

Posted by kristinbell on November 19, 2008 at 4:27 PM

The Broad Art Foundation??
Shouldn't that be the Broad Broad Art Foundation?

Posted by hartiepie on November 19, 2008 at 4:48 PM

Oh man. The Fat Fights on Slog are my favorite. They should probably have their own tag.

Posted by Aislinn on November 19, 2008 at 5:01 PM

Awesome painting -- probably my favorite of the works of art you've linked to on Slog so far. Thanks for posting! And ignore the idiots.

Posted by Marya on November 19, 2008 at 9:56 PM

Aristotle said this about the representation of reality in art: we might be disgusted by the real object as it exists in the world, but we are attracted by its representation in art if it is done well. I too find these paintings beautiful, but only aesthetically so. An actual person with this shape is unpleasant to me. But I do find **the paintings** beautiful.

Posted by Sceptica on November 19, 2008 at 10:06 PM

she was attracted to painting obese people because they had colors that only fat-carrying flesh could have, such as different kinds of blues, greys etc. Personally, I can find beauty in almost everything and its sad to see people who can only see them as ugly or disgusting because of the media.

Posted by liem on August 14, 2010 at 7:15 PM