Starry Night by Van Gogh Size:S - 29.7 x 42cm (A3) Nico Tracey approaches the Guggenheim

Nico Tracey approaches the Guggenheim not as a record but as a graphic proposition

blurring the boundary between document and art

lending human scale to the drama above

and soft violet — bleed into one another across the composition

and the subtle shifts of colour across the body

Starry Night by Van Gogh Size:S - 29.7 x 42cm (A3) Nico Tracey approaches the GuggenheimThe Starry Night needs no introduction, yet it rewards every return. Van Gogh painted this view from his room at Saint Paul de Mausole in 1889, and the result remains one of the most emotionally charged compositions in Western art. The night sky churns with spiraling energy thick impasto swirls of blue, indigo, and white circling a crescent moon and blazing stars above a sleeping village. The cypress tree anchors the foreground like a dark flame