The Luminist Light of Belgium In the quiet streets of Sint-Niklaas, a child was born into a world that would soon see the soft, shifting play of light through the Belgian landscape. This was the beginning of a life dedicated to the brush and the palette, a life that would eventually find its home in the artistic circles of Antwerp. Alfons Proost did not merely observe the world; he sought to capture the very essence of light as it danc…