The Dream in Red by Pablo Matisse

Dream in Red, 2015
Pablo Matisse
Acrylic on canvas original (after H. Matisse and P. Picasso):
20” x 16”
$450.

In the original, Harmony in red, Matisse used a technique deployed by the impressionists to create an illusion of space by giving everything equal importance. In this painting I’m denying the viewer the fun of visual meandering by making Le Reve the focal point of the painting.

Marie-Therese said that when they met Picasso grabbed her by the arm and said, “I’m Picasso. You and I are going to do great things together!”

Little did she know that Picasso had an ambivalence towards the women he loved. Marie-Thérèse, Olga, Françoise, Dora Maar… all sacrificied at the altar of Picasso’s art. “For me there are only two kinds of women, goddesses and doormats”. Said Picasso.

About Pablo Matisse

Pablo Matisse (aka, Dane LaChiusa ) Education: BFA, School of Visual Arts, 1983 Continuing Education: Parsons School of Design, The Art Student’s League, The School of Visual Arts, The College for Creative Studies, New York University. Fine Art exhibitions: 2012-present • Prince Street Project Space, Group exhibitions 2014 • Brooklyn Library, The Sketchbook Project 2013 • Artist Space, night of 1000 drawings, group show 2011 • Riot, New York, one man show 2009 • CPOP gallery, Detroit 2009 • Halo, New York. {howl festival} 2002 • Vanity Fair atelier NY fashion week Illustration experience: 1995 - Present Clients: Whole Foods, Snapple, Two Boots Pizza, The New York Times, Harper Collins, CosmoGirl, More Magazine, Brides Magazine, The Knot, Nickelodeon, Starbucks, Dentyne, Kate Spade, Jack Spade, Conseco, Little Caesars Pizza, Phillip Morris Youth Anti-Smoking, Village Dogworks, Comcast, Narratively. Animation: The Making of Paranoid Park, by Gus Van Sant. Zipper/Coney Island’s Last Ride, by Amy B. Nicholson Advertising Design experience: 2005 - present: Freelance Art Director/Copywriter 1995 - 2005: Senior Art Director/Copywriter, Blue Communications/Edelman Worldwide, Publicis, Agency 212 DIGO Brand Advertising, Kirshenbaum, Bond + Partners, NY. Teaching Experience: June 2008 – Present WyzAnt, Private Art Instructor, students ages ten through fifteen. The Art Room, Bayridge Brooklyn. Art Teacher, summer camp. The Brooklyn Brainery, Park Slope, Brooklyn. Art Teacher, evening classes.

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