Horse V 2013

Here's James Jean's Horse V, made with paint, though the exact date is unknown. It’s a wild ride, isn’t it? Just imagine Jean in his studio, maybe with some music on, trying to wrangle this vision onto the canvas. It’s like he’s trying to capture a dream, where the horse and rider are morphing into something else entirely. Look at the way the forms swell and drip, almost like they're melting into each other. Those blues and yellows create this eerie, otherworldly light that makes the whole scene vibrate. And that single line of the rein. It sort of makes you wonder if this tension and distortion is actually under control. I'm thinking about other painters who’ve tried to capture movement, like Umberto Boccioni. But Jean’s taking it somewhere else, pushing the boundaries between representation and pure, unadulterated imagination.