Was Matisse a Bad Father? The Music Lesson

From 1916-17, Henri Matisse produced two paintings from exactly the same point of view, both showing his son, Pierre, at the piano. 'The Piano Lesson' and 'The Music Lesson' might share a subject, but they couldn't be more different. In this essay, I look at what we can learn about Matisse and his family from these works, and consider how he thought about and painted music.

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FURTHER READING/RESEARCH
'What's Wrong With This Picture?' - An Interview With Pierre Matisse: http://www.nicholasfoxweber.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Child-Mag-Nov-1987-Pierre-Matisse.pdf
The Personal Life of Henri Matisse: http://www.henri-matisse.net/biography.html
A summer of Matisse: the colour of music: https://gerryco23.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/a-summer-of-matisse-the-colour-of-music/

MUSIC
Claude Debussy - Rêverie
Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps, IV. Spring Rounds
Claude Debussy - Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Minor, I. Allegro vivo
Arvo Pärt - Summa
Johann Johannsson - Cambridge, 1963 (The Theory of Everything [OST])

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