I have expressed in past posts that I have a passion for 20th century American art. Jim Dine is an important & passionate member of my favorite art circle & the great era of the 1950s-1980s in NYC. This group included Dine’s friends & colleagues Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, John Cage, Cy Twombly & Andy Warhol.
Jim Dine is an American Pop painter, sculptor, printmaker, illustrator, performance artist, stage designer, & poet. Pop Art derives its inspiration from commonplace objects: packaging of products, advertisements, comic strips, & photographs of celebrities. Dine uses ordinary & familiar objects of personal significance in his paintings. These objects usually are bathrobes, hearts, birds, flowers, hands, or tools.
I will never forget the thrill I had when I 1st viewed Jim Dine’s Red Bathrobe painting at MOMA, one of several in a bathrobe series.
Jim Dine often deviates from the perceived inexpressive nature of popular art. His work is lively & filled with passion for the common experiences of daily life. Dine states that he is too subjective for definition of Pop Art, & that Pop Art is just a facet in his style of painting. According to him, the popular images of daily use are not the subject of his drawings. His expression lies in creating personal images, paintings depicting his own paint & brushes, color charts, his studio, his experiences as a painter, his other paintings, simple objects from his own life in his work.
For me, Jim Dine’s work is filled with wit & creativity. For over 4 decades, Dine has produced more than 3000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, performance works, stage & book designs, poetry,& music. His art has been the subject of numerous individual & group shows and is in the permanent collections of museums around the world. He lives & works in NYC.
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