Critically acclaimed writer and aspiring painter James Morgan and his wife decided to 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 journey of self-discovery takes him, and us, from the earthy, brooding Picardy of Matisse's youth 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. Chasing Matisse shows us how we can learn to see ourselves, others, and the world with fresh eyes.--From publisher description.
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