Picture "The Hand-Coloured Viennese Hearts IV" (1990)
Picture "The Hand-Coloured Viennese Hearts IV" (1990)
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limited, 40 copies | numbered | signed | mixed media on paper | hand-coloured | framed | size 129 × 108.5 cm
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Picture "The Hand-Coloured Viennese Hearts IV" (1990)
Today, Jim Dine is mainly appreciated for his paintings and graphic art and is considered to be part of Pop Art. However, he occupies a separate place in art history due to his poetic handwriting and his very personal trove of motifs, in which variations of hearts repeatedly appear. Dine's spontaneous painterly gesture shows his closeness to Abstract Expressionism but also to Dadaism and Surrealism.
Original screenprint with soft ground etching and aquatint, hand-coloured, 1990. Edition: 40 copies on paper, numbered and hand-signed. Size in frame 129 × 108.5 cm as shown.
About Jim Dine
The pop artist Jim Dine was born in Cincinnati/Ohio on 16 June 1935. The US painter, graphic artist, sculptor and happening artist, who became world-famous in particular for his virtuoso mastery of complex techniques, graduated from the University of Cincinnati and the Boston Museum School in 1958. From 1960 to 1965 he held visiting teaching positions at various US-American universities.
When Jim Dine came to New York, at the end of the 1960s, he started to include everyday objects in his work, which connected him to the emerging Pop Art. Together with Claes Oldenburg and Tom Wesselmann, he founded a gallery where he staged his first happenings, for which he later became famous.
Today, Dine is mainly appreciated for his paintings and graphic art. He is considered to be part of Pop Art. However, he occupies another separate place in art history for his poems and his very personal pool of motifs, in which variations of hearts appear repeatedly. Dine's spontaneous painterly gesture shows his closeness to Abstract Expressionism, but also Dadaism and Surrealism.
Exhibitions: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Gallery, London, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, Kansas City, documenta, Kassel, Biennale, Venice.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.
Graphic artwork in the making of which the artist combines at least two graphic techniques.
In the early 1950s, a movement took over the cultural scene. Young artists from the US and the UK - completely independently of each other - severed their ties with all the traditions of artistic creativity and helped modernity to achieve a new art movement.
In the US there were Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann and James Rosenquist who were seeking their themes in the world of advertising and comics, in star cult and anonymous urban culture. With flash colouring, over dimensioning and manipulating depth perspective they created new provocative works. thanks to the famous exhibition "This is Tomorrow" at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi are to be considered as the true pioneers of Pop Art in England. In the 1960s, they were followed by David Hockney, Allan Jones, Peter Phillips and Derek Boshier.