Jim Dine Crash
1970s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Offset
People Also Browsed
2010s Minimalist Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Offset
Early 2000s Minimalist Abstract Prints
Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
1970s Surrealist Animal Prints
Lithograph
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Offset, Permanent Marker, Lithograph
1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Screen
1970s American Modern Abstract Prints
Paper, Ink, Screen
Vintage 1970s Anglo-Indian Wall Mirrors
Composition
Mid-20th Century Italian Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Porcelain
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Pencil
1980s Pop Art More Prints
Lithograph, Offset
1970s American Modern Black and White Photography
Silver Gelatin
1990s American Modern Posters
Paper
Mid-20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Giclée
1980s Realist Landscape Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Posters
Giltwood, Paper
Mid-20th Century More Prints
Archival Paper, Digital, Digital Pigment
Recent Sales
Vintage 1960s American Post-Modern Contemporary Art
Paper
Jim Dine for sale on 1stDibs
The Ohio-born artist Jim Dine brought his ever-shifting, multidisciplinary vision to New York in 1958, a time of transition in the American art world. Abstract Expressionism, which had dominated the scene for years, was on the wane, and a group of young artists, including Dine, Allan Kaprow, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, was eager to replace it with a movement that flipped the traditional rules of art-making on their head.
Beyond dissolving the boundaries between mediums and genres, attaching found objects and detritus to their canvases, these revolutionaries began staging performative “happenings” in public spaces, redefining the very definition of a work of art. As Pop art took form, Dine used objects with personal significance, like his paintbrushes, to transform his paintings into two-dimensional sculptures. He was included in the Norton Simon Museum’s 1962 “New Painting of Objects,” often considered the first true Pop art exhibition in America, but he remained a chameleon, constantly changing his style, material and technique.
More than his contemporaries, Dine has forged new paths in drawing, scrawling words and names across the canvas to create graphic, abstract landscapes. He is obsessed by certain motifs — such as hearts and his own bathrobe — which recur in various forms throughout his oeuvre. He has occasionally worked in classical genres, such as portraiture, as exemplified by the 1980 aquatint Nancy Outside in July. He has also co-opted the bold, graphic vocabulary of advertising and commercials, as in the sleek 2010 composition Gay Laughter at the Wake.
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- Why did Jim Dine paint hearts?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertFebruary 22, 2021Jim Dine painted hearts because he was a self-described romantic artist. He embraced the heart because he believed it was a shape with boundless possibilities and a complex meaning. He explored relationships of color, texture and composition through the heart.