Jim DINE

"The objects I use are both mundane and personal, poetic and ironic, reflecting my feelings about life."

A major figure in American art, Jim Dine is an poet and artist known for his role in conceptal art happenings and Pop Art. He pursues the search for his identity through the expression of a very personal interior world. His iconography comprises motifs reprised as signatures: the heart, the skull, tools, Pinocchio, and the Venus de Milo, which lend significant symbolic weight to the artist's quest.