This is the 23rd post in our Artist of the Week series.
Jim Dine was born in 1935 in Ohio. He earned a BFA from Ohio University in 1957. He first earned a reputation for himself as a performance artist with Happenings beginning in 1959.
In 1962 his art was included along with several other influential pop artists of the period in the New Painting of Common Objects which was curated by Walter Hopps at the Norton Simon Museum. This exhibit is one of the first Pop Art exhibitions in America.
Throughout the beginning of the 1960s Jim produced paintings of everyday objects which garnered him much critical and commercial, success but left him personally unsatisfied. In 1967 he moved to England in order to work on his art.
He returned to the US in 1971 with new drawings and ideas for paintings. In the 1980s he began working on sculpture as well while switching the focus of his paintings from man made objects to nature.
Today Jim Dine's work is seen in museums around the world and in 2008 he inaugurated a nine meter high bronze statue depicting a walking Pinocchio which was named Walking to Boras and is located in Boras, Switzerland.
To learn more about Jim Dine visit e-fineart.com and askart.com.
