FORT WORTH, Texas -- British artist Jenny Saville has spent her career using paint to depict flesh. Her large, unflinching, empathetic paintings of bodies -- mostly women's -- have made her one of the ...

One canvas in particular, titled “Turning” (2018), caught my eye. Semmel had painted the central figure turning away from the viewer, her right thigh propped on a stool and her blurred face mostly ...

Martin Luther sits at a table surrounded by other leaders of the Reformation. A Bible is opened in front of him. A candle burns at the table’s center. The scene is depicted in a 17th-century painting ...

Jenny Saville’s 12-foot-wide 1999 oil painting "Hyphen" is prominently displayed outside the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth's main galleries to introduce her new exhibition, “The Anatomy of Painting.

Have you ever looked at an antique painting and wondered why everyone looks so green around the gills? Poor diet? Not hydrating enough? Did they just completely run out of Drunk Elephant? The answer ...

Jenny Saville revels in flesh. “Figure” and “nude” seem like flimsy descriptors when standing in front of the British artist’s marvelous canvases of ample and unbridled bodies. These are tactile ...

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Renee Maurer, coordinating curator for a new art exhibition called Paint Made Flesh at the Philips Collection in Washington (see Susan Stamberg's Morning Edition story, sent us this note about one of ...

I owe Glyn Philpot an apology on several counts. On entering this fascinating exhibition, I realised it almost immediately. I’ve always thought that the British artist, born in 1884, created one ...