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| Born | James Lewis Dine (1935-06-16)June 16, 1935 (age 90) Cincinnati,Ohio, U.S. |
| Education | Ohio University University of Cincinnati |
| Known for | painting,drawing,sculpture,printmaking,photography,happenings,assemblage,poetry |
| Spouse | Nancy Lee Minto |
Jim Dine (born June 16, 1935) is an American artist. Dine's work includes painting, drawing, printmaking (in many forms including lithographs, etchings,gravure,intaglio, woodcuts, letterpress, and linocuts), sculpture, and photography.
Dine's first formal training took the form of night courses at theArt Academy of Cincinnati, in which he enrolled in 1952 at the age of 16,[1] while attending Walnut Hills High School.[2] In 1954, while still attending evening courses, Dine was inspired by a copy ofPaul J. Sachs'Modern Prints and Drawings (1954), particularly by theGerman Expressionist woodcuts it reproduced, including work byErnst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938),Emil Nolde (1867–1956) andMax Beckmann (1884–1950)—"I was shocked by them" — and began creating woodcuts in the basement of his maternal grandparents, with whom he was then living.[3]
After high school, Dine enrolled at theUniversity of Cincinnati. Under printmaking teacher Donald Roberts (1923–2015) Dine experimented in lithography, etching, intaglio, dry paint and woodcuts. At Roberts' suggestion, Dine subsequently studied for six months withTure Bengtz (1907–1973) at theSchool of Fine Arts at theMuseum of Fine Arts in Boston, before returning to Ohio University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1957 (remaining for an additional year to make paintings and prints, with the permission of the faculty).[1]
In 1958 Dine moved to New York, where he taught at the Rhodes School.[4] In the same year he founded the Judson Gallery at the Judson Church in Greenwich Village withClaes Oldenburg and Marcus Ratliff, eventually meetingAllan Kaprow and Bob Whitman: together they became pioneers of happenings and performances, including Dine'sThe Smiling Workman of 1959.[5] Dine's first exhibition was at the Reuben Gallery, where he also staged the elaborate performanceCar Crash (1960),[5] which he describes as "a cacophony of sounds and words spoken by a great white Venus with animal grunts and howls by me."[6] Another important early work wasThe House (1960), an environment incorporating found objects and street debris, installed at the Judson Gallery.[7]
Dine continued to include everyday items (including personal possessions) in his work,[8] which linked him to Pop Art—an affinity strengthened by his inclusion in the influential 1962 exhibition "New Painting of Common Objects" at the Pasadena Art Museum, curated byWalter Hopps and later cited as the first institutional survey of American Pop Art, including works byRobert Dowd,Joe Goode,Phillip Hefferton,Roy Lichtenstein,Edward Ruscha,Wayne Thiebaud andAndy Warhol.[9][10]
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