The Making of The Dream in Red by Pablo Matisse

dream red table progression

Here is work in progress on my painting “The Dream in Red” after Picasso’s Le Reve and Matisse’s Harmony in Red. With so much red it seems hard to believe that the characters and decoration don’t get lost in it. But Matisse was a master of balancing color and pattern. Picasso’s dream girl is not easily lost. I started off with skin tone similar to The Pink Nude and then realized I had to tone it down. I relied on a dark outline where prudent to make any necessary elements pop. – Pablo Matisse

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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