Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1935, Dine spent his childhood above his family’s hardware store. After training at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the Boston Museum School, he moved to New York and began to mix in Beat and early Pop-Art circles, with contemporaries such as Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.
His first works took the form of ‘Happenings’ — chaotic, ramshackle performances popular among the New York avant-garde of the late 1950s. But, even at this early stage, his work was already characterised by an obsession with everyday objects.
By the early ‘60s, Dine had moved towards a more intimate and representational approach. A series of headless self-portraits in 1964 culminated in Double Isometric Self-Portrait (1964) and the first appearance of one of his enduring motifs, the men’s dressing gown.
Dine depicted commonplace items, such as robes, and archetypal shapes such as the heart or the Venus de Milo, and repeated them through countless permutations of colour and medium, from delicate prints to vast bronze sculptures. While repetition was a common motif in Pop Art, Dine employed it to a very different end. Pop was playing with art as mass culture; Dine was imposing a personal, lyrical individualism upon his faceless archetypes.
After moving to London in 1967, his work became obliquely autobiographical. He began to use writing in his painting, often the names of loved ones, and many of his titles, such as Nancy and I at Ithaca (1966–69), carry a deeply personal meaning.
A uniquely prolific and diverse artist, Dine returned to live and work in the United States in the 1970s.
JIM DINE (B. 1935)
Dorian Gray at Opium Den, from The Picture of Dorian Gray
JIM DINE (B. 1935)
Etching, Self Portrait (Ivory)
JIM DINE (B. 1935)
Dutch Hearts: two prints
JIM DINE (B. 1935) AND RON PADGETT (B. 1942)
Kansas City There I Was, from Oo La La (with Ron Padgett)
JIM DINE (B. 1935)
Portrait
JIM DINE (B. 1935)
Woodcut Self-Portrait
JIM DINE (B. 1935)
At Nite, The Thicket!
JIM DINE (B. 1935) AND RORY MCEWEN (1932-1982)
Record with Rory McEwen: two prints
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
Big Black Zipper
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
Shoes Walking on My Brain
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
2 Hearts (Reverdy)
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
Jane
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
Shoe
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
The Columbia River
JIM DINE (b. 1935)
The Colorful Venus and Neptune
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
At Home in Delft
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
Red Lite Bulb
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
Thief #3
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
In My Cincinnati Studio
Jim Dine (né en 1935)
Landscape London June
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
Venus
JIM DINE (NÉ EN 1935)
5 GÖttingen songs - No. 4 (Ginsburg)
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
A German Blackness
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
The Robe, Following Her #4
Jim Dine (né en 1935)
Blue October
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
The Cold Shines Through
JIM DINE (B. 1935)
Blood Red Orange and Red
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
The Primary Hand
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
Glow of July
JIM DINE (B. 1935)
My Left Hand and Me
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
The Beast
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
P.W.H. #6 (B.B. King)
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
French Pants
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
Halloween Tie
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
Five Large Heads in London
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
The Heart on the Rock
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
The Garden of Eden
JIM DINE (B. 1935)
The Columbia River
JIM DINE (B. 1935)
Objects in a Palette Landscape
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
At Kottbusser Tor
Jim Dine (né en 1935)
The greys of spring
JIM DINE (B. 1935)
Mother and Son
JIM DINE (B. 1935)
Midsummer Wall
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
Untitled (Rome Hearts)
JIM DINE (NÉ EN 1935)
Old pussy's Hankie
JIM DINE (b. 1935)
3 Palettes (Portrait of A)
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
We Stand By Ourselves
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
Emily Dine: Good News!
JIM DINE (B. 1935)
Full Sleeves, Empty Eyes
Jim Dine (b. 1935)
Mother and Son