Starry Night Over the Rhone by Van Gogh Florent Bodart The horizontal expanse gives his

The horizontal expanse gives his abstract vocabulary room to breathe: forms drift and collide

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

the illustration's clean geometric linework and flat colour blocking are rendered with exceptional sharpness

graphic arrangements using muted tones and precise linework

Starry Night Over the Rhone by Van Gogh Florent Bodart The horizontal expanse gives hisStarry 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