Jim Dine

Jim Dine (June 16, 1935) is an American artist.

Dine was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1935. He went to the University of Cincinnati and the Boston Museum School. He got a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts degree) at Ohio University in 1957. In 1958 Dine moved to New York City. He worked on Happenings with artist Claes Oldenburg, composer John Cage, and others. Happenings were disorderly "performances that took place around the city ... away from the areas traditionally associated with art museums and galleries."

In the 1960s he became famous for painting bathrobes. He said, "I was looking for a way to do self-portraits without painting my face. I saw this bathrobe in an ad. It had no one in it—but it looked like my shape, so it became a sort of metaphor for me."

In the 1970s drawing became more important to him than painting. He used common objects such as tools, hearts, trees, birds. These objects "are easily understood by the viewer, while also suggesting deeper layers of meaning."

Dine's art is in the permanent collections of many museums. Some of them are:

  Art Institute of Chicago
  Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
  Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn 
  Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland 
  Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge 
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 
  Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  Museum of Modern Art, New York 
  National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 
  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 
  Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 
  Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT 

References

 Other websites 
Jim Dine at PennSound

Category:1935 births
Category:American painters
Category:American artists
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