Jim Dine has been doing pop art for many years. The American artist creates contemporary paintings, and in 2018 he came with his expositions to Russia.
84-year-old American artist is one of the creators of such a direction of art as pop art.
Biography
Jim Dine was born in 1935 in America. After acquiring secondary education at school, he decided to graduate. For this, the young man in 1953 goes to university. Here he studies until 1958. But even in his younger years, young talent studied at the School of Fine Arts in Boston.
After graduation, the future famous artist came to New York. Here, with colleagues in the shop, he created the first happenings. This word is called contemporary art, which represents an event, an action that occurs with the participation of the creator of this masterpiece. This trend in art is designed to erase the border between the audience and the artist.
Creation
Dine Jim is also a graphic artist, sculptor, and at the age of 30 he began to write poetry, became interested in photography. Creative people created various works for theaters.
The American artist worked in several styles. He tried himself in abstract impressionism, pop art. Dine later took up figurative painting.
Exhibition in Russia
In the fall of 2018, the Jim Dine exhibition was held at the Multimedia Art Museum. Of course, journalists could not bypass such an event. They interviewed an American artist.
When asked about the opening of this first major exhibition in Russia, a representative of contemporary art replied that he was proud of such an event. He likes that many people have the opportunity to get acquainted with his work. At the same time, he had no hope that the exhibits he created would please everyone. But, according to Jim Dyne, if at least one person does not remain indifferent when looking at the creations of the master, this will be enough for him.
Talking about his career, the artist told me that he lived in France for 40 years and loves this country very much.
In his works, the American classic of modern art often uses the image of Pinocchio. The master revealed the secret of this. He said that Pinocchio was made from a piece of wood. According to Dyne, this process is symbolic. After all, the tale tells about what kind of work is needed to become a real person, so that the tree comes to life.
