Jim Dine

Jim Dine is essentially a pop artist, although I view his work in a higher regard. From the 1930s, he is one of the pioneer's along with artists like Lichenstein and Warhol to first develop the pop art style that would shape art in the early 20th century. The idea of pop art was to take famous or commercial imagery and take it out its context, mass producing it or combining it with other imagery to make it artwork. Dine also used this idea using objects from everyday life to turn into pop art.
Of all his art I like his 'From Ten Winter Tools' series the most. He created 10 prints of ordinary everyday objects, but by the process of mass producing them he gave them significance. He showed how objects of everyday use had been integral to how we lived and shaped our lives, which I find a truly inspirational idea and one that I even used in my own art work during my a levels.



Of all his pieces of work the sculpture Walking to Borås is seen as his best. Its basically a huge sculpture of Pinocchio, an incredibly famous and mass produced image. Dine said that Pinocchio was just like art for him. A stick being transformed into a boy, was like art where something ordinary becomes somethign amazing.


The idea of taking ordinary ideas or objects and making them extraordinary is an interesting idea that has effected my work in the past and I hope it would do so in the future.