Jim Dine

Jim Dine - Dutch hearts

Biografía del Artista: Jim Dine was born in 1935 in Cincinnati (United States). He studied contemporary art at Ohio University (1953-1957). He moved to New York in 1958, where he created his first “happenings” that same year. His first solo exhibition took place two years later. From the beginning of his artistic career, Jim Dine pursued the themes that would become recurrent: self-portraiture, the body, memory; the artist undertakes this personal search in painting, mixed media, sculpture, drawing, and other media. The artist's work is narrative and autobiographical. In 1962, Jim Dine participated in “New Realism”, an exhibition that established Pop Art. In the 1960s, his work presents a mythology of everyday life with tools, clothes, hearts, which are “like a vocabulary of feelings”. From 1970 onwards, he settled in London for a while and painted a series of canvases and works on paper on the theme of the heart, then bathrobes. In the 1980s, Dine mixed faces, landscapes, skulls and huge red hearts on diptychs and triptychs. He made wooden statues of primitive characters, which he pierced with objects like voodoo witches in witchcraft ceremonies. He made installations of statues of old masters that he had painted to pay ironic homage to the history of sculpture. Over the past decade, Jim Dine has used photography to “access his unconscious in an immediate way,” experimenting with digital printing, heliogravure, and chromophotographic development. Jim Dine wants his compositions to be like “waking dreams.” He produced important graphic works: engravings, lithographs, silkscreens, monotypes, posters and drawings. Jim Dine lives and works between Paris and New York.