Stroke by Stroke

Follow 24 paintings by Vincent van Gogh, from blank canvas to final stroke.

From The Potato Eaters to The Starry Night, from Sunflowers to Tree Roots, each chapter covers one work in six pages: the whole painting, the story behind it, the canvas reconstructed step by step, enlarged details, and what time has done to the colors.

The text draws on the painter’s letters and on the examinations museums have carried out with X-ray, infrared, and microscopy, always separating what is known from what is reconstruction. A QR code in each chapter opens the Art&Art channel video in which the same canvas takes shape, stroke by stroke.

The works follow the painter’s life in five parts: the Netherlands, Paris, Arles, Saint-Rémy, and Auvers.

Inside the book:

– 24 works, from 1885 to 1890

– Each painting reconstructed step by step

– More than 140 enlarged details

– What museum examinations have revealed

– One QR code per chapter, linking to the video of the work

– A glossary of painting terms

The first volume in the Stroke by Stroke series. Coming next: Monet, Vermeer, Mary Cassatt, Cézanne, Impressionism, the Dutch Golden Age, and the Renaissance.