Jim Dine Biography

Jime Dine was born in 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio. American painter, printmaker, poet and experimental artist, Jim Dine is recognized as one of the leading artists in American POP ART.

Jim Dine first studied painting in evening courses at the Cincinnati Art Academy while he was still in high school. He then attended the University of Cincinnati, the school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Ohio University.

After moving to New York in 1959, Jim Dine staged his first HAPPENING. At the same time, he was painting, working in collage, and creating his first prints, the Car Crash series which commemorated the death of a friend. In the ensuing years, Jim Dine's work took on a more figurative, yet still highly personal style. He has created an autobiography through objects which are privately symbolic. His bathrobe studies, for instance, are progressive self-portraits. Dine's graphic prints reflect his skill as a draftsman and his virtuosity as a painter. Frequently, these skills are combined, but more often he has chosen to separate them so that some prints dramatically display his linear techniques and others his power as a painter.

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, and the Brandeis Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts are only a few public institutions permanently exhibiting Jim Dine's Artwork.

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