Back to Jim Dine Artwork For Sale American pop artist Jim Dine (June 16, 1935) is sometimes considered to be a part of the Neo-Dada movement. Like pop artists, Dine incorporates images of everyday objects from everyday life such as tools, rope, shoes, neckties, and other articles of clothing, and even a bathroom sink, to his canvases and in his art.

Biography Jim Dine (1935 – ) American painter, sculptor, and graphic artist. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dine studied at the University of Cincinnati, the Boston Museum School, and in 1957 received a bachelor of fine arts degree from Ohio University. After graduation, he moved to New York City and became involved with a circle of artists—including Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein—whose work moved away from abstract expressionism toward pop art. Like pop artists, Dine incorporated images of everyday objects in his art, but he diverged from the coldness and impersonal nature of pop art by making works that fused personal passions and everyday experiences. His repeated use of familiar and personally significant objects, such as a robe, hands, tools, and hearts, is a signature of his art. In his early work, Dine created mostly assemblages in which he attached actual objects to his painted canvases, as in Shoes Walking on My Brain (1960). From 1959 to 1960, Dine also was a pioneer of happenings, works of art that took the form of theatrical events or demonstrations. In 1967 Dine and his family moved to London, England, where he devoted his energies to printmaking and drawing. When he returned to the United States in 1971, he concentrated on figure drawing. Dine is considered among the most accomplished draftsmen of his generation, and is known for his series of self-portraits and portraits of his wife, Nancy. Dine's attention turned to sculptural work in the early 1980s when he created sculptures based on the ancient sculpture Venus de Milo. His recent art uses imagery borrowed from ancient Greek, Egyptian, and African objects. Curriculum Vitae Jim Dine 1935 Born Cincinnati, OH 1953-55 Studies at University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Boston Museum School, Boston, MA 1957 BFA, Ohio University, Athens, OH 1958 Enrolls in graduate study at Ohio University 1965 Guest Lecturer, Yale University, New Haven, CT 1965 Artist-in-residence, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 1966 Visiting critic, College of Architecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1992 Receives the Pyramid Atlantic Award of Distinction in Washington, D.C. Selected Exhibitions 2002 Print Retrospective, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN 2002 Drawings, National Gallery, Washington D.C. 1999 Photographs: PaceWildenstein, New York, NY 1998 Dine and Picasso prints, Alan Cristea Gallery, London 1994 Campbell Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993 Jim Dine: New Paintings, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL 1988-90 Retrospective of Drawings, The Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, OH 1988 Drawings Jim Dine 1973-87, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX 1986-87 Jim Dine: Prints 1977-85, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 1986-87 Waddington Graphics, London 1986-87 Fuji Television Gallery, Toyko 1979-80 Jim Dine: Figure Drawings 1975-79, The University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA 1978 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 1977 One-man show, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY 1974 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 1970 Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1967 Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1961 First Solo exhibition, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY Statement "I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny." Press Release Pinocchio is causing a stir — even before his arrival Nothing has caused as much discussion in Borås as the Pinocchio sculpture. Even before his arrival, many local people already have fixed views about him. There have been meetings to discuss him and demonstrations too. “Sculptures have always aroused people´s feelings. Their sole task is to be experienced by us", claims Hasse Persson, head of the art museum. The reaction pattern is familiar from previous instances. Carl Milles´ Poseidon in Gothenburg and Bodhi i Viskan in Borås are two examples of sculptures that gave rise to heated discussion before they were erected on site. “When the sculpture has been in place for a year or two people start to say: “I don´t understand what the fuss was all about, I love this work", says Hasse Persson. Director of Culture in Borås, Elisabeth Lundgren believes that this process, with regard to Pinocchio, has actually started before the sculpture has been erected. “I feel that reactions have already shifted and that more and more people are positive about the idea of Pinocchio standing there at the end of Allégatan", she says. “At the moment it feels as though people in Borås are curious and expectant." “And good sculpture must stir up feelings. If no one has strong feelings about the work it means that it is so feeble that no one notices it", Hasse Persson adds. Chairman of the Arts Committee in Borås, Bengt Wahlgren, was surprised by the heat of the debate: “With regard to public art it seems as though feelings play the leading role and perhaps that is not so strange since contemporary art seeks to arouse feelings, thoughts and discussion." In discussing the project, opponents of Pinocchio have concentrated mainly on three arguments: the storybook figure as the subject of a sculpture, the urban landscape of Borås and the decision-making process. The subject. Opponents claim that Pinocchio has nothing to do with Borås. The avant-garde of this argument also maintains that the Disney figure strengthens American cultural imperialism. Supporters point out that the original story of Pinocchio is Italian and is universal in its treatment of the art of being human. They also maintain that a work of art does not need to be a monument to something but is a sculpture that an artist gives expression to. “How many of the other 90 sculptures in Borås have any connection with the town", Bengt Wahlgren asks. The urban landscape of Borås. Opponents claim that a sculpture that is nine metres high on that particular site will have too much of an influence on the urban landscape. Supporters point out that Jim Dine designed his sculpture for this specific site and maintain that the sculpture at that site will be something very positive for Borås. “There has long been an idea about a large sculpture on that site", Bengt Wahlgren points out. Democratic procedures. Opponents claim that democratic procedures were ignored in that the donors specified the subject as well as the site of the sculpture. They also raise the issue of people´s right to the public domain. Supporters claim that Borås had every opportunity to say no to the Pinocchio sculpture and that the decision was made in accordance with democratic procedures, with full discussion in the appropriate committees and a final vote of 40 in favour and 28 against in the Municipal Council. “No other issues have been so thoroughly dealt with through the arts and other committees right up to the municipal council", claims Hasse Persson. He also points to the fact that procedures necessarily differ depending on whether a work of art is to be financed by the taxpayer or whether — like Pinocchio — it comes as a donation. When the municipality is paying for the work one can, for example, choose to have a competition for an artistic treatment of a specific site. With a donation one can either say yes please or no thank you. In the case of Pinocchio — or Walking to Borås — as the sculpture is to be called, Hasse Persson thinks that it was natural to say yes please. “In my view this is Jim Dine´s most important sculpture and we can feel extremely happy that it will end up in Borås rather than in New York of Paris", he maintains. The sculpture Walking to Borås (Pinocchio) will be formally inaugurated on Friday 16 May at 4 pm. This will also mark the start of the Borås Festival of the Arts which will continue through to 25 May. On Saturday 17 May, the Borås International Sculpture Festival will be opened, showing works by 27 artists. This will continue until 21 September. For further information please contact: Elisabeth Lundgren (Director of Culture), Tel. +46 (0)768-88 75 96 Hasse Persson (Director of Borås Art Museum), Tel. +46 (0)768-88 76 62 link to article Links Jim Dine ~ Pinocchio Model for Boras Monument Walking to Boras Jim Dine: Poet Signing ~ At The Getty Museum Jim Dine Books at Arcana Jim Dine article "Walla Walla, Wash" in the New York Times Jim Dine Hearts ~ The Month of June ~ 2006