Dine, Jim (1935-…), is an American artist. He became associated with the Pop Art movement, which developed during the 1960’s.
Dine’s works include images of familiar, everyday objects, such as tools, a bathrobe, and neckties, as well as brushes and color charts used by professional house painters. By representing these objects in isolation from their normal surroundings, Dine gives them a heightened, almost religious, significance. Dine works with a variety of materials. He has created paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints. He has incorporated real objects into some of his paintings. Dine often uses few, and fairly drab, colors, though he has occasionally added bright colors to highlight and emphasize his forms.
Beginning in the mid-1970’s, Dine created works with references to earlier art, particularly Greek sculpture. His later works are also more expressionistic and symbolic, though he continues to use recognizable imagery. James Dine was born on June 16, 1935, in Cincinnati.
