Are Jenny Saville's Paintings Feminist, Misogynist Or Just Grotesque?

Jenny Saville is a world-renowned contemporary painter with a new solo exhibit at the Modern Art Oxford in the UK. Saville is known for painting the human body- usually that of a woman's- with little desire to evoke traditional ideas of beauty, let alone femininity. In fact many of her nudes are of morbidly obese women, or depict women who appear to be battered and bruised. Still, she's described as "kind of ...

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