Author Archives: 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.

Pink Nude Woman by Pablo Matisse

Pink Nude Woman, 2015 (After Henri Matisse, Pink Nude and Pablo Picasso, Head of a Woman.) Pablo Matisse Acrylic on canvas   Drawing on Picasso’s head of a woman which portrays his wife as a ball of confusion on top … Continue reading

Posted in Pablo Matisse | Tagged | Leave a comment

Pink nude woman progression by Pablo Matisse

Here is work in progress of my version of Pablo Picasso’s Head of a Woman and Henri Matisse’s Pink Nude. Matisse had also documented his pink nude in a progression of black and white photographs. He worked through stages of … Continue reading

Posted in Pablo Matisse | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Head of a Woman by Pablo Picasso

Head of a woman, 1939 Pablo Picasso Oil on canvas I’m not sure if this is a portrait of Dora Maar, the Yugoslav woman who was Picasso’s lover for nine years; or his second wife, Jacqueline, who was his muse … Continue reading

Posted in Picasso | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Pink Nude by Henri Matisse

Pink nude, 1935 Henri Matisse Oil on canvas This groundbreaking work by Matisse lead the way for his cut-outs. It is the first painting where he used cut paper to configure the image, and design the composition, before painting it. … Continue reading

Posted in Matisse | Tagged , | Leave a comment

The Parakeet and the Mermaid

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Picasso- Light Graffiti

Picasso– coming up with drawings out of thin air. DJ Storm's Blog In 1949, LIFE photographer Gjon Mili visited Picasso in Vallauris, France. He showed Pablo some photographs of ice skaters with tiny lights affixed to their skates jumping in … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

CAN YOU SEE THE “PICASSO SCULPTURE” EXHIBIT AT MOMA FROM HERE?

Originally posted on Whither the Book:
? September 16, 2014, by Jack Dziamba. New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday. Picasso’s “Woman With Hat,” made of painted sheet metal in the early 1960s, is in “Picasso Sculpture” at the Museum of…

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Pablo Matisse | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

The Making of The Dream in Red by Pablo Matisse

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. … Continue reading

Posted in Pablo Matisse | Tagged | Leave a comment

Harmony in Red by Matisse

Harmony in Red, 1908 Matisse Oil on canvas 180 x 220 cm (The Hermitage, St. Petersburg)   The painting Russians call “The red room” is considered by many to be Matisse’s crowning achievement. When introduced in 1908 such a quantity … Continue reading

Posted in Matisse | Tagged , , | Leave a comment