Exhibition - Jim Dine: A Life in Printmaking
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Exhibition - Jim Dine: A Life in Printmaking
Date:
October 1, 2015 - October 2, 2015
Event Description:
Jim Dine entered the New York art world to great acclaim with his performance art "Happenings" and mixed media assemblages in the late 1950s. Although identified among the first generation of Pop artists, Dine's work has always been independent of labels. His signature images of hearts, tools and bathrobes suggested popular culture references, but in his hands they became opportunities for a strong romantic, expressionist sensibility. Over time he expanded the realm of imagery to embrace classic and mythic themes, along with figurative work and portraiture.
Dine is one of those rare artists who have been active as a creative printmaker throughout his career and for whom prints are artistically equal to, and closely interact with his other work in painting, drawing, sculpture and photography. In the spring of 2014, Jim Dine donated 201 complete works of art from his personal archives to the Museum of Art at Washington State University, in honor of art patron Jordan D. Schnitzer and as a stimulus to the campaign for a new museum building on the Pullman campus.
Dine is one of those rare artists who have been active as a creative printmaker throughout his career and for whom prints are artistically equal to, and closely interact with his other work in painting, drawing, sculpture and photography. In the spring of 2014, Jim Dine donated 201 complete works of art from his personal archives to the Museum of Art at Washington State University, in honor of art patron Jordan D. Schnitzer and as a stimulus to the campaign for a new museum building on the Pullman campus.
