Dutch Avant Garde Artist Jacqueline de Jong Dies at Age 85

Over her six-decade career, Duch artist Jacqueline de Jong has completely dedicated herself to exploring the narrative possibilities of figuration through her raw, surrealistic and extremely vivid representations of contemporary life. She traversed many different styles and dealt with various subjects, from more mundane scenes to sentimental ones and deeply political themes, such as the war in Gaza, never imposing any limits to her medium’s narrative potential.

Her experiments with figuration...