Chasing Matisse
Chasing Matisse

Author: James Morgan

Publisher: Free Press

Published: 2009-03-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781439167243

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Who hasn't had the fanthasy of leaving his or her old life behind to start over? What would happen if you gave up your job, city, state, and routine to move to another part of the world? Critically acclaimed writer and aspiring painter James Morgan does just that. Risking everything, he and his wife shed their old, settled life in a lovingly restored house in Little Rock, Arkansas, to travel in the footsteps of Morgan's hero, the painter Henri Matisse, and to find inspiration in Matisse's fierce struggle to live the life he knew he had to live. Part memoir, part travelogue, and part biography of Matisse, Chasing Matisse proves that you don't have to be wealthy to live the life you want; you just have to want it enough. Morgan's riveting journey of self-discovery takes him, and us, from the earthy, brooding Picardy of Matisse's youth all the way to the luminous Nice of the painter's final years. In between, Morgan confronts, with the notebook of a journalist and the sketchpad of an artist, the places that Matisse himself saw and painted: bustling, romantic Paris; windswept Belle-île off the Brittany coast; Corsica, with its blazing southern light; the Pyrénees village of Collouire, where color became explosive in Matisse's hands; exotic Morocco, land of the secret interior life; and across the sybaritic French Riviera to spiritual Vence and the hillside Villa Le Rêve -- the Dream -- where the mature artist created so many of his masterpieces. A journey from darkness to light, Chasing Matisse shows us how we can learn to see ourselves, others, and the world with fresh eyes. We look with Morgan out of some of the same windows through which Matisse himself found his subjects and take great heart from Matisse's indomitable, life-affirming spirit. For Matisse, living was an art, and he never stopped striving, never stopped creating, never stopped growing, never stopped reinventing himself. "The artist," he said, "must look at everything as though he were seeing it for the first time." That's the inspiring message of renewal that comes through on every page of Chasing Matisse. Funny, sad, and defiantly hopeful, this is a book that restores our faith in the possibility of dreams.

Chasing Matisse
Chasing Matisse

Author: James Morgan

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1416590455

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Who hasn't had the fanthasy of leaving his or her old life behind to start over? What would happen if you gave up your job, city, state, and routine to move to another part of the world? Critically acclaimed writer and aspiring painter James Morgan does just that. Risking everything, he and his wife shed their old, settled life in a lovingly restored house in Little Rock, Arkansas, to travel in the footsteps of Morgan's hero, the painter Henri Matisse, and to find inspiration in Matisse's fierce struggle to live the life he knew he had to live. Part memoir, part travelogue, and part biography of Matisse, Chasing Matisse proves that you don't have to be wealthy to live the life you want; you just have to want it enough. Morgan's riveting journey of self-discovery takes him, and us, from the earthy, brooding Picardy of Matisse's youth all the way to the luminous Nice of the painter's final years. In between, Morgan confronts, with the notebook of a journalist and the sketchpad of an artist, the places that Matisse himself saw and painted: bustling, romantic Paris; windswept Belle-île off the Brittany coast; Corsica, with its blazing southern light; the Pyrénees village of Collouire, where color became explosive in Matisse's hands; exotic Morocco, land of the secret interior life; and across the sybaritic French Riviera to spiritual Vence and the hillside Villa Le Rêve -- the Dream -- where the mature artist created so many of his masterpieces. A journey from darkness to light, Chasing Matisse shows us how we can learn to see ourselves, others, and the world with fresh eyes. We look with Morgan out of some of the same windows through which Matisse himself found his subjects and take great heart from Matisse's indomitable, life-affirming spirit. For Matisse, living was an art, and he never stopped striving, never stopped creating, never stopped growing, never stopped reinventing himself. "The artist," he said, "must look at everything as though he were seeing it for the first time." That's the inspiring message of renewal that comes through on every page of Chasing Matisse. Funny, sad, and defiantly hopeful, this is a book that restores our faith in the possibility of dreams.

Jours of Our Lives
Jours of Our Lives

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2019-05-06

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781733936415

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BETH ARNOLD'S Jours of Our Lives is the narrative of one couple's wild-card bet on themselves. In 2002, after living 13 years in their showplace of a Craftsman bungalow in Little Rock, Arkansas, Arnold-a journalist, essayist, and novelist-and her husband, author James Morgan, decided it was time for a change.And what a change they made! When Morgan, a book writer and amateur painter, was stumped for a new book idea, Arnold saw the chance to pull out a dream of hers: to live in France. Arnold's late brother, New York decorator Brent Arnold-whom David Halberstam had called "the talent of his generation"-had given the couple vivid decorating advice when they'd married and moved into their Craftsman house: "Matisse colors and Vuillard patterns." Brent Arnold's advice had turned James Morgan into a devotee of Henri Matisse. So on a day in 2001, when Beth was working with James to help him discover a new book idea, she suggested a facet of artistic life--in this case, Matisse's life--that gripped Morgan: Most people look, but they don't see in the deepest sense of the word. Her idea for him was a book called "Learning to See," in which he would follow in the footsteps of Henri Matisse. The book became Chasing Matisse, and soon the two of them had sold their beloved house in Little Rock and embarked on a life-changing journey through France, Corsica, Morocco, and beyond.Jours of Our Lives, which began life as Beth Arnold's daily blog recounting the soap-opera arc of their crazy and heart-wrenching road trip in pursuit of a creative dream, stands today as a vivid depiction of one couple's brave and unwavering commitment to a life that called them. "Beth Arnold," writes William Whitworth, editor emeritus of The Atlantic, "is a reporter, a novelist, a memoirist, a cook, and a mom, but perhaps most of all she is a wanderer and a gifted travel writer. With wit and offhand ease, Arnold shows us her world: how to get there, where to stay, what it looks like, how it sounds, and what it tastes like."

Chasing Aphrodite
Chasing Aphrodite

Author: Jason Felch

Publisher: HMH

Published: 2011-05-24

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 0547538022

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A “thrilling, well-researched” account of years of scandal at the prestigious Getty Museum (Ulrich Boser, author of The Gardner Heist). In recent years, several of America’s leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy and Greece. Why would they be moved to such unheard-of generosity? The answer lies at the Getty, one of the world’s richest and most troubled museums, and scandalous revelations that it had been buying looted antiquities for decades. Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and candid interviews, these two journalists give us a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museum, and tell a story of outlandish characters and bad behavior that could come straight from the pages of a thriller. “In an authoritative account, two reporters who led a Los Angeles Times investigation reveal the details of the Getty Museum’s illicit purchases, from smugglers and fences, of looted Greek and Roman antiquities. . . . The authors offer an excellent recap of the museum’s misdeeds, brimming with tasty details of the scandal that motivated several of America’s leading art museums to voluntarily return to Italy and Greece some 100 classical antiquities worth more than half a billion dollars.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “An astonishing and penetrating look into a veiled world where beauty and art are in constant competition with greed and hypocrisy. This engaging book will cast a fresh light on many of those gleaming objects you see in art museums.” —Jonathan Harr, author of The Lost Painting

Matisse on the Loose
Matisse on the Loose

Author: Georgia Bragg

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Published: 2009-07-14

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0375892621

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A kid. A famous painting. A cool moment. A prison sentence? Have you ever done something you shouldn’t have? But you’re a good person and you don’t think that it’s going to cause any real harm? But then something bad happens and it turns out that you were wrong? Welcome to Matisse’s world. Matisse has finally got the chance to come face to face with the work of his namesake, the great French painter Henri Matisse. The museum where his mom works as head of security is hosting a Matisse exhibit. Matisse thought it would be cool to hang his own artwork—a copy of a famous Matisse painting, Portrait of Pierre—on the museum wall just for a minute. But then a tour group thinks that it’s a real Matisse. So now Matisse’s painting hangs in a museum—while the priceless original hangs on Matisse’s eccentric family’s den wall. A sixth grader should not get caught up in a museum heist. But . . . what if he does?

Matisse
Matisse

Author: Rebecca A. Rabinow

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1588394670

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"Throughout his long career, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) continually expanded the boundaries of his art. By repeating images in pairs, trios, and series, he conducted an ongoing dialogue with his earlier works in order to, as he put it, "push further and deeper into true painting." In this fresh approach to a much-studied artist, prominent scholars from the United States and Europe examine more than sixty works in concise chapters that focus on this aspect of Matisse's working process. From early pairs such as Young Sailor I and II (1906) and Le Lexe I and II (1907-8) through a series of late studio scenes from Vence (1946-48), Matisse is shown revisiting a given theme with the aim of devising innovative, often radical, solutions to such problems as how to portray light, handle paint, select colors, and manipulate perspective. New technical studies of the early paired works and photographs documenting the evolution of his later paintings help to elucidate Matisse's complex evolution. In numerous excerpts from letters and interviews, he is revealed as an artist who regularly questioned himself and his methods, a man of powerful intellect who regarded each new painting as an adventure. A significant addition to art historical literature, Matisse: In Search of True Painting is a revelatory study of a seminal figure in 20th-century modernism."--Page 4 of cover.

Chasing the Milky Way
Chasing the Milky Way

Author: Erin E. Moulton

Publisher: Philomel books

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0399164499

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The acclaimed author of "Tracing Stars" delivers a moving story about how a mother's mental illness affects her childrenNand the way her children's band together to get through it.

Elantris
Elantris

Author: Brandon Sanderson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005-05

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 9780765311771

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Fantasy roman.

Missing Matisse
Missing Matisse

Author: Jan Rehner

Publisher: Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781926708218

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Chloe Rea grew up believing the woman in the Matisse drawing "Woman in a Blouse, Dreaming" was her grandmother. The sketch belongs Adam Jensen, and although Chloe wants it, there's a third party willing to kill for it. When a Toronto art dealer is murdered, Chloe and Adam escape to France hoping to reveal the story of the beautiful woman, and in turn, discover why the drawing is so important.