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Art review Violent, tender and unabashedly erotic: Saville shows she sets her own rules

June 19, 2025

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The Guardian

The posters and grand title of Jenny Saville's retrospective scream paint! - in red, pink and bruise colours - but you need to look at her exquisite drawings to get the measure of her.

- Jonathan Jones

Art review Violent, tender and unabashedly erotic: Saville shows she sets her own rules

The posters and grand title of Jenny Saville's retrospective scream paint! - in red, pink and bruise colours - but you need to look at her exquisite drawings to get the measure of her. In Neck Study II a woman, eyes closed, holds up her head so we can study the curves and dips of flesh on her stretched neck. Saville notes these anatomical realities with a pencil in precise nuances of shading, also observing every contour of her face and the bones under her thin shoulders. It is beautiful. It is true. So what the hell - I thought - was she doing in the adjacent gallery where massively enlarged faces, pummelled by life and her art, are lit as harshly as flash photographs?

They include her portrait of a boy with a bloodied face, lip twisted, eyes dazed, used for the cover of a Manic Street Preachers album that was banned from supermarkets for being too disturbing. That was just a small reproduction. Here is the colossal real thing; these are faces that truly get in your face.

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