The title 'The Woman in Red' is about celebrities. Perhaps the woman in this painting is a celebrity walking down the red carpet in a beautiful ball-gown, all charming and glamourous. However, the splurge of disintegrating geometric shapes illustrate a more complex meaning behind her dress. Each shape depicts a different problem or complexity in her life, and she disguises these sharp-edged 'structures' by combining them and riding over them to display a bewitching and elegant flamboyance that she can hide behind.