Starry Night Over the Rhone by Van Gogh Florent Bodart Af Klint structures the composition

Af Klint structures the composition with an underlying geometry that keeps the apparent fluidity in check: organic and ordered in equal measure

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

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

This vintage celestial map plots the visible stars with the meticulous care of a nineteenth-century astronomer — constellations traced in fine engraved line

graphic arrangements using muted tones and precise linework

Starry Night Over the Rhone by Van Gogh Florent Bodart Af Klint structures the compositionStarry 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