Jim Dine

Jim Dine was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1935. Jim Dine is known to be a leader of the Pop Art Movement and also is sometimes considered to be a part of Neo-Dada Movement.

Dine, renowned for his wit and creativity as a Pop and Happenings artist, has a restless, searching intellect that leads him to challenge himself constantly. Over four decades, Dine has produced more than three thousand paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints, as well as performance works, stage and book designs, poetry, and even music. His art has been the subject of numerous individual and group shows and is in the permanent collections of museums around the world.

As an artist, Mr. Dine incorporates images of everyday objects in his artwork, but he diverges from the coldness and impersonal nature of pop art by making works that fuse personal passions and everyday experiences. His repeated use of familiar and personally significant objects, such as a robe, hands, tools, and hearts. The hearts of Dine, recurrent pattern, have been compared with an artist signing.