Starry Night Over the Rhone by Van Gogh Florent Bodart graphic arrangements using muted tones

graphic arrangements using muted tones and precise linework

where abstract shapes suggest rolling fields and sky without ever overstating them

its elongated neck and dagger-shaped bill rendered with the meticulous accuracy demanded by nineteenth-century natural history publications

It sits within a lineage of European surrealism filtered through contemporary visual culture

Starry Night Over the Rhone by Van Gogh Florent Bodart graphic arrangements using muted tonesStarry Night Over the Rhone predates its more famous sibling by nearly a year, painted in Arles in September 1888. Where the later work churns with interior urgency, this one holds a different quality expansive, almost tender. Gas lamps from the city bank stretch luminous reflections across the river's dark surface, and above, the Great Bear constellation wheels in a sky of deep Prussian blue. Two figures walk at the water's edge. Van Gogh's brushwork