
'Self portrait in a flat cap' by Jim Dine is an etching from 1974, measuring 66 × 50.8 cm. The composition centres on a figure whose long hair falls loosely around a face rendered in dense, cross-hatched lines, topped by a solid dark cap. Behind the figure, bare-branched trees are drawn with wiry, gestural marks against a lightly worked ground. The plate work is confident and loose simultaneously — the face hovers between legibility and obscurity. Dine, born in 1935 and associated with Pop Art though never comfortably contained by it, made the self-portrait a sustained vehicle across his printmaking practice. This etching sits within that tradition, where autobiographical subject matter is filtered through the physical resistance of the intaglio process rather than confessional directness.
Self portrait in a flat cap, 1974
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'Self portrait in a flat cap' by Jim Dine is an etching from 1974, measuring 66 × 50.8 cm. The composition centres on a figure whose long hair falls loosely around a face rendered in dense, cross-hatched lines, topped by a solid dark cap. Behind the figure, bare-branched trees are drawn with wiry, gestural marks against a lightly worked ground. The plate work is confident and loose simultaneously — the face hovers between legibility and obscurity. Dine, born in 1935 and associated with Pop Art though never comfortably contained by it, made the self-portrait a sustained vehicle across his printmaking practice. This etching sits within that tradition, where autobiographical subject matter is filtered through the physical resistance of the intaglio process rather than confessional directness.
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What is pop-art?
Pop Art is an art movement that began in Britain in 1955 and in the late 1950s in the U.S. It challenged traditional fine arts by incorporating imagery from popular culture, such as news, advertising, and comic books. Pop Art often isolates and recontextualizes materials, combining them with unrelated elements. The movement is more about the attitudes and ideas that inspired it than the specific art itself. Pop Art is seen as a reaction against the dominant ideas of Abstract Expressionism, bringing everyday consumer culture into the realm of fine art.

Jim Dine
Self portrait in a flat cap, 1974
66 x 50.8 cm



































































































