Dine has noted that he grew up in a family that sold tools and had always been ‘enchanted by these objects made by anonymous hands.’ Dine’s
Happenings is among his earliest works and achieved much acclaim; the work was a collection of several chaotic performance pieces at various sites throughout New York City, and were created alongside fellow artists,
Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, and musician John Cage.
« My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make,
it's about talking as clearly as I can. »
Jim Dine
Dine’s earliest paintings featured such objects as screwdrivers and cans of paint, as evidenced in his Job #1 piece – he then went on to create through the medi
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Dine has noted that he grew up in a family that sold tools and had always been ‘enchanted by these objects made by anonymous hands.’ Dine’s
Happenings is among his earliest works and achieved much acclaim; the work was a collection of several chaotic performance pieces at various sites throughout New York City, and were created alongside fellow artists,
Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, and musician John Cage.
« My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make,
it's about talking as clearly as I can. »
Jim Dine
Dine’s earliest paintings featured such objects as screwdrivers and cans of paint, as evidenced in his Job #1 piece – he then went on to create through the medium of sculpture and among his most recognised pieces is his Technicolour Heart, a 12-foot-tall silicon bronze sculpture that he adorned with oil enamel in the shape of a heart.
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