| Jim Dine was
born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied at the Boston School of Fine and Applied Arts in Boston, Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957 He moved to New York in 1959. He staged his first Happenings with Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow at the Judson Gallery, New York. He had his first one-man exhibition at the Reuben Gallery, New York.
Dine was represented at the Venice Biennale in 1964, and at the Documenta "4" in Kassel in 1968. He lives in New York and London.
In his paintings, drawings, sculptures, graphics, collages and assemblages he combined different techniques with handwritten texts and words and set real everyday objects against undefined backgrounds. The objects were both commonplace and personal, both poetic and ironic, reflecting his feelings about life. His constantly varied bathrobe, transparent to the gaze of the world, was a kind of metaphor for a self-portrait. In the 70s he turned to representational painting of a traditional kind.
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