Jackie Wullschlager selects Jules de Balincourt: They Cast Long Shadows in FT Critics’ Choice

'"They Cast Long Shadows" is the title the French-American painter gives to his latest dystopian imaginings: a group of acid-bright, glowing, shifting forms, pushed to the edge of legibility, never quite settling into distorted landscapes, eerie caves, monsters turning into monuments, a snaking river worn like a dress…'

 

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Image: Jules de Balincourt, Island People, 2017

Oil on panel, 61 x 50.8 x 4.4 cm, 24 x 20 x 1 3/4 in
© the artist
January 13 2018