Jim Dine
Jim Dine ( born June 16, 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American artist and a major representative of Pop Art
Life
Jim Dine grew up in middle-class family in the surroundings of his parents' household goods business. 1953 to 1958 he studied at the University of Cincinnati, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston and at the Ohio State University ( Columbus ), Ohio, where he acquires the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts. In 1959 he moved to New York. Together with Claes Oldenburg, Marc Ratliff and Tom Wesselmann He founded the Judson Gallery, Judson Memorial Church, where he exhibits and his friends led by first happenings. Between 1960 and 1965 he held various visiting professorships, including at Oberlin College, Ohio, and at Yale University, New Haven. In 1966 he worked in London with Eduardo Paolozzi. Jim Dine was one of many artists who belonged to the circle of friends and acquaintances of the art collector and patron Theodor Ahren mountain.
Work
Jim Dine is one to the genre-bending artists. In addition to painting, graphics and sculpture he devotes himself from the sixties and the poetry and from the nineties of the 20th century of photography, he designed stage sets and theatrical costumes. The artist is generally associated with the pop scene, because he with Claes Oldenburg and others established a new perspective in the late fifties, the everyday objects ripped from their context and put them in your own aura. Shortly thereafter, he turned away from the distancing cold objectivity of Pop Art and found to be a metaphorical level and a more emotional warmth in his art that followed, the abstract expressionists in its approach.
Dine worked in artistic phases that were defined by certain recurring subjects. From the mid- sixties was his continuous motif of the robe; in it he saw himself, he abstracted here, the different facets of his own personality. In the eighties, Dine classical figurative art wall too. After extensive studies of classical sculpture he created a series of figurative sculptures, which he was inspired by the ancient "Venus de Milo ". Another well-known cycle were his heart, which include both self-reflection as well as fundamental questions of human existence.
Jim Dines critical questioning of human existence can be explained well by its proximity to the discoveries and methods of psychoanalysis; He describes himself as a follower of the teachings CG Guys.