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The Cloud, 1996 | Enamel paint on marble | 84 x 30 ½ x 23 inches Jim Dine is one of America’s best known Pop artists, whose prolific body of work includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, performance works, poetry and music. The Cloud explores one of the iconographic images of Dine’s body of work, the Venus de Milo. This ancient Greek sculpture depicting Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, serves as a muse for Dine. She is the embodiment of the maternal archetype and romantic ideal, although in Dine’s interpretation, Venus de Milo is depicted headless. Dine’s work is included in such public collections as the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection (NY), Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), National Gallery (Washington, DC) and Tate (London). |
