A Five-Point Guide to Jenny Saville

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Ever since being cherry-picked by Charles Saatchi for his 1994 Young British Artists III exhibition, Jenny Saville – then, barely two years out of art school – has stayed unflinchingly faithful to her subject of choice: flesh and, most commonly, the female form. “Flesh,” she once said, citing abstract artist Willem de Kooning, “was the reason oil paint was invented.” Many of her nudes – bulging folds of stomach and thighs on the verge of bursting through the canvas – would…