Jim Dine (born the June 16th 1935) is an artist born with the the United States representing Pop American art. Sometimes one regards it as belonging to the movement Néo-Hobby-horse.

Biography

Jim Dine is born with Cincinnati in the Ohio, passes by the Université of Cincinnati and obtains Bachelor off Fine Arts (university degree) of the Université of Ohio in 1957. In the years 1959 - 1960, Dine is one of the pioneers of the Happening S which it carries out with the artists Claes Oldenburg, Allan Kaprow, and the musician John Cage. The very first one is The Smiling Worker , performance of 1959.

With the beginning of the year 1960, Dine carries out works fitting in the current Pop art starting from current reasons (hearts, craniums…) or of symbols of the life of the every day (bottles, containers, tools…) gone up in series and sometimes of real objects which it inserts in its works. Those meet a favorable critic and a certain business success, but leave Dine dissatisfied. In 1967 it settles with London where it is exposed by Robert Fraser and during four years its technique polishes. It returns to the United States in 1971. In the years 1980 it is devoted more to the sculpture. Since, it seems to more find its models in nature that in the objects manufactured by the man.

Jim Dine lives and works with New York.

Work

Often very coloured, the fabrics of Dines use the technique of molten (blurred contours) and the series, with an infinity of variations in particular in the chromatic nuances. The reason for cranium, present like a recall in the fabrics in the middle of many banals objects and usual of the contemporary world, joins again with the tradition of the Still life . has still life with has red pepper ace October exchanges our valley of 1977, watch thus two fruit rows which alternate with empty bottles behind the transparency of which a cranium is profiled; assemblies like Wheatfields , kind of surmounted plow of a bronze cranium, take again this technique. The hearts of Dines, recurring reason, were compared with a signature of the artist.

Exposures

Jim Dine was exposed in 1984 to the Walker Art Center of Mineapolis in the Minnesota ( Jim Dine: Five Topics ), in 1989 with the Mineapolis Institute off Arts ( Jim Dines Drawings: 1973-1987 ). In 2004, the National Gallery off Art in Washington organized an exposure ( Drawings off Jim Dine. )

The artist was represented with the Biennale de Venise in 1964, and with the Documenta 4 of Kassel in 1968.

" The odyssey of Jim Dines, prints of 1985 to 2006 " is presented to the Musée of the Art schools of Caen from March 17th to June 11th, 2007.

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