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Born in 1935, Jim Dine is an American painter and printmaker, often associated with POP art. He was a leading organizer of Happenings, 1959-60, and an early creator of Environments. In the early 1960’s he began to attach real objects to his canvases, thus establishing a visual dialogue between the energetically painted setting. His wit comes to the fore in juxtapositions that create visual puns, in the aggrandizing of common objects and in the deliberate confusion of sexual and mechanical elements. Since the mid-1970’s he has focused increasingly on technique; in a recent series of paintings, he executes a single image on a large scale, employing various compositional devices and color combinations. He is a masterly printmaker and draftsman.

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