Toledo Museum of Art
Toledo, OH
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Jim Dine: Past Present
Future
If you had a chance
to see the exhibition The Great American Pop
Art Store: Multiples of the Sixties, you may have noticed works by the
artist, Jim Dine. Beginning July 28 through October 8, 2000, the Toledo
Museum of Art's Graphic Arts Galleries will highlight the graphic career
of Jim Dine in a free exhibition called "Jim Dine: Past Present Future."
The three-part exhibition focuses on the interaction of the artist with
antiquities (past); with his contemporaries and physical environment (present);
and with the pervasive theme of mortality and humanity (future), evident
in much of Dine's work, especially his many self portraits.
Jim
Dine (b. 1935) was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1958, he was
lured away from the graduate program at Ohio University by the excitement
of the New York art scene. Dine actively sought out and befriended many
of his already established contemporaries, including Jasper Johns, Claes
Oldenburg, Allan Kaprow, and Larry Rivers. There was an active exchange
between these artists, sometimes resulting in a change of focus or content
in an individual's work. (left: © Jim Dine 1973, Five Paintbrushes,
1973, etching on Hofgkinson hand-made paper, 30 x 39 5/8 inches, The Toledo
Museum of Art, The Shoemaker Fund, 1973.21)
Dine is best known to visitors of the Toledo Museum of
Art for the bronze sculpture The Crommelynck Gate with Tools (TMA
1984.77), which features cast representations of tools welded into its structure.
Famous for his numerous renderings of tools, bathrobes, hearts, and gates,
Dine often interprets these objects as personal metaphors, reflecting his
continued self-analysis and quest to understand his own psyche. The resultant
images are often dark and reworked and cover the entire surface with little
or no background.
The art historian David Shapiro has used the term "American
Darkness" to characterize Dine's style. Shapiro believes that Dine
and Jasper Johns share many of the same sensibilities and that their work
is in contrast to 19th century American Luminism, which strove to depict
the qualities of light seen in expansive landscapes. Examples of American
Luminism at the Toledo Museum include Albert Bierstadt's, El Capitan,
Yosemite Valley, California (TMA 1959.18) and Sanford Robinson Gifford's,
Lake Nemi (TMA 1957.46).
The
exhibition "Jim Dine: Past Present Future" includes over 50 prints,
drawings, and books from the Museum's permanent collection, most made after
1970. The Toledo Museum of Art will feature the 1996 mixed media series,
Twenty Drawings of a Roman Boy (TMA 1996.12 a-t), along with the
famous bronze sculpture, Statue of a Youth (TMA 1966.126), on which
they are based. The exhibition is open during regular Museum hours and admission
is free. (left: Twenty Drawings of a Roman Boy, 1996, mixed
media, The Toledo Museum of Art, 1996.12 a-t)
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Jim
Dine (b. 1935) was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1958, he was
lured away from the graduate program at Ohio University by the excitement
of the New York art scene. Dine actively sought out and befriended many
of his already established contemporaries, including Jasper Johns, Claes
Oldenburg, Allan Kaprow, and Larry Rivers. There was an active exchange
between these artists, sometimes resulting in a change of focus or content
in an individual's work. (left: © Jim Dine 1973, Five Paintbrushes,
1973, etching on Hofgkinson hand-made paper, 30 x 39 5/8 inches, The Toledo
Museum of Art, The Shoemaker Fund, 1973.21)