Label
How many hearts has Jim Dine made over the course of his career? "Millions...I have no idea but it's mine and I use it as a template for all my emotions. It's a landscape for everything, based on something very simple but building to a complicated structure. Within that you can do anything in the world."
As a self-described romantic artist, Dine embraced the heart as a shape with boundless possibilities and a complex meaning. He explored relationships of color, texture, and composition through the heart, and each heart explored a different theme and reflection of where he was in his life. In the past, Dine's hearts have been a touching symbol to his wife Nancy, and to a friend recovering from a breakdown.