This biography from the Archives of 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 |
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 Rogallery.com:
| Jim Dine was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and first studied painting in
evening courses at the Cincinnati Art Academy while he was still in
high school. He then attended the University of Cincinnati, the
school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Ohio University. He
moved to New York in 1959 and in that year staged his first happening.
At the same time, he was painting, working in collage, and creating his
first prints, the Car Crash series which commemorated the death of a
friend.
In the ensuing years, his work took on a more figurative, yet still
highly personal style. He has created an autobiography through objects
which are privately symbolic. His bathrobe studies, for instance, are
progressive self-portraits. Dine's prints reflect his skill as a
draftsman and his virtuosity as a painter. Frequently, these skills are
combined, but more often he has chosen to separate them so that some
prints dramatically display his linear techniques and others his power
as a painter. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Museum
of Fine Arts, Dallas, and the Brandeis Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts
are only a few public institutions permanently exhibiting his work. |
Biography from Edward Cella Art+Architecture:
| Jim Dine was born June 16, 1935, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied at night at the Cincinnati Art Academy during his senior year of high school, and then attended the University of Cincinnati, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Ohio University, Athens, from which he received his B.F.A. in 1957.
Dine moved to New York in 1959, and soon became associated with the development of Pop Art. He exhibited at the Judson Gallery, New York, in 1958 and 1959, and his first solo show took place at the Reuben Gallery, New York, in 1960.
Frequently Dine affixed everyday objects, such as tools, rope, shoes, neckties, and other articles of clothing, and even a bathroom sink, to his canvases. Characteristically, these objects were Dine’s personal possessions. This autobiographical content was evident in Dine’s early Crash series of 1959–60 and appeared as well in subsequent recurrent themes and images, such as the Palettes, Hearts, and bathrobe Self-Portraits.
Dine has also made a number of three-dimensional works and environments, and is well-known for his drawings and prints. He has written and illustrated several books of poetry. |
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