JIM DINE SIGNED HEART METROPOLITAN OPERA 1983 POSTER

Size as Framed: 31”W x 48 1/2”H 

Titled A Heart at the Opera, this exhibition poster was created by noted artist and graphic designer Jim Dine for the Centennial Celebration of the Metropolitan Opera 1883-1983. It is signed by Dine and numbered (8/500).

Hearts are an oft-repeated theme in Dine’s work. When asked how many hearts he had painted over his long career, Dine responded “millions,” then added that he actually had no idea but that he used hearts as a template for all his emotions and as a landscape for everything. With his heart images he has explored the interrelationships of color, texture, form and composition in a variety of media, including drawing, print, painting and sculpture. As a self-described romantic artist, he has claimed the heart as his personal symbol.

In this lithograph, a hand saw rests underneath the heart – an interesting juxtaposition. Tools have also figured prominently in many of Dine's works. They are among the popular symbols which are personal to him and which he has incorporated into his art, as his family owned a hardware store when he was growing up.  

Jim Dine (b. 1935) began his career in the early 1960s and has been a creative force in the art world since then. He is often grouped with the pop artists of that era, but early on he developed his own style of incorporating popular symbols that reflected his introspective viewpoint and his personal and emotional experiences in prints, paintings, sculptures, photographs, and poetry.

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