Sunday, July 29, 2007

Looking Towards the Avenues



I don't deal exclusively with the popular image. I'm more concerned with it as a part of my landscape. Pop Art is only one facet of my work. More than popular images, I'm interested in personal images...
- Jim Dine, quoted in Art News, November 1963


Three sculptures by Jim Dine, under the collective name "Looking Toward The Avenue" 1989

Mr. Dine, a resident of New York and London who is widely viewed as having been one of the first Pop artists, reverted to an old theme, a variation on the Venus de Milo that he first hit upon in the 70's. What he produced was three bronze figures that are 14, 18 and 23 feet high and that resemble the famous armless goddess, minus her head.

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