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My artist’s name is Jim Dine and he was born June 16, 1935- still living. He was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio and he is an artist of Pop Art it started in 1960’s. He painted, drew, and sculpted. He used watercolors, charcoal, enamel, pastels, pencil, and chalk. He did lots of his art with hearts and bright colors and his style is Pop Art. Pop Art is a type of art that is a part of everyday images. Examples are advertisement, packaging store items, photographs, and comic strips. Pop Art is a part of modern culture. His style points out craftsmanship while highlighting the ultimate importance of emotional content. His images were mostly of robes, hearts, and tools. Other artists include Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Dowd, and Joe Goode. They helped influence Jim’s artistic ability and they all started a movement. Which changed modern art forever. He was a supporter of the Neo-Dada and Pop Art and he was finally known in 1959.During the 1960’s he created a lot of artwork using items and images of pop-culture. He was best knowing for his art piece “The Study For This Sovereign Life”. “The Study For This Sovereign Life,” has a blue background and a rope divides it into two pieces. On the left is a skull, and on the right is a heart. Interesting information about Jim is he went to London England to show his work and twenty pieces of his art was seized because it was found to be offensive. One of his art pieces, which he named “Hair”, gave the name to the rock musical “Hair”. // "I have come to terms with lots of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living. // // - Jim Dine //

Katie McGuire For the artwork I did was originally done by Jim Dine. I did the piece where there is a colorful checkered background with a big red heart on the right side. I decided to give it the name “Happy Heart”, because it is big and red. Even though bright boxes surround it. It is happy even though it is the only different shape. I used oil pastels, but the very first thing I did was sketch it in my sketchbook. Then I got a big piece of paper and used pencil to start my project. After the pencil I used the oil pastels. I tried not to put the same colors by each other in my little squares; I also tried to put all brighter colors in them. My inspiration was Jim Dine. I thought he did really unique art, and I like the idea of hearts, and he did many pieces of art with them. I tried to state that you can be happy even if you are the only one of your kind. That to me is the heart. The mood in the picture should be a happy one. I really did enjoy working on this, it was fun and I would do something like it again. I think it is successful because I had a good time doing it. I think to make it better I would not have done so much black in the corners of the heart. This was such a fun project for me and I will definitely do more Jim Dine things when I'm older.