Biography from Art Cellar Exchange:
| Jim Dine began his career as a professional artist in the late 1950s and quickly became associated with the Pop Art movement occurring in New York at that time. His work differed from others in the movement, however, possessing a painterly quality that contained an element of personal expression. In an interview with Art News magazine, Jim Dine said, "Pop Art is only one facet of my work. More than popular images, I'm interested in personal images." This may explain why Dine frequently chose self-portraiture and subjects that surrounded his personal life, as a subject in his work.
Over the past fifty years, Jim Dine has created a great deal of artwork involving the human form. The artist's initial interest in depicting the human character, and more specifically self-portraiture, began early in his career. His interest in figurative art soon transitioned into vibrant hearts, robes and flowers that Dine depicts in his work of the 1980s and forward. Instead of his characteristically more realistic approach towards rendering his subjects, he progressively moved towards an interest in symbolism wherein the images of robes symbolized himself and the popular images of hearts symbolized his love for his wife.
The work of Jim Dine is represented in most of the major modern and contemporary art museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum.
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Biography from AskART:
| A contemporary painter and assemblage artist, Jim Dine has created gestural, sometimes heavily impastoed work with a style that hearkens to Abstract Expressionism. A major early influence was Jasper Johns from whom he learned methods of random juxtaposing of real objects shadowed by painted copies.
Since the mid-1970s, his work has reflected his skill as a draftsman and has focused more on traditional pictorial problems rather than leading-edge improvisation.
He was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, and studied there at the Art Academy and the University of Cincinnati from where he earned a B.F.A. in 1958. In 1959, he moved to New York City where he established a studio for the major part of his career, although he was artist-in-residence for short periods including Williams College in Massachusetts, Oberlin College in Ohio, and Cornell College in New York state.
Early in New York, he was part a spontaneous performance artist group, "Happenings," that included Red Grooms, Allan Kaprow, and Claes Oldenburg. His pieces from that time, some with flashing lights, were part of the assemblage of events staged by those artists regardless of whether or not they had an audience.
In the following years, many of his canvases had big letters and objects such as hatchets and saws that suggested viewer participation.
His work is represented in most of the major art museums featuring contemporary American work including in New York the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum. A special exhibition of his work, "Jim Dine Walking Memory," was held at the Cincinnati Art Museum in October, 1999 to January 2000.
Source:
ARTnews, February 1996, "Dine Unrobed"
Peter Hastings Falk (ed.), Who Was Who in American Art
Matthew Baigell, Dictionary of American Art |
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