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1960s American Modern Black and White Photography
Silver Gelatin
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Late 20th Century American Chinoiserie Cabinets
Glass, Wood
Late 20th Century American Chinoiserie Desks
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Late 20th Century American Chippendale Secretaires
Brass
Vintage 1970s American Georgian Desks
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Antique Early 19th Century American American Empire Paintings
Canvas
Mid-20th Century American Chinoiserie Desks
Brass
1980s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media, Oil
20th Century North American Paintings
Acrylic
1980s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media, Oil
1990s American Modern Black and White Photography
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
1960s American Modern Black and White Photography
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1990s American Modern Black and White Photography
Silver Gelatin
1990s American Modern Black and White Photography
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
1990s Realist Portrait Paintings
Gouache
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1970s Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1970s Pop Art Mixed Media
Lithograph
1970s Pop Art More Prints
Lithograph, Offset
1970s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1970s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
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.