L.A. Eye Works
Primary
Jim Dine
(Cincinnati, Ohio, 1935– )
NationalityAmerican, North America
Date1982
MediumEtching, aquatint, and carborundum on four sheets
DimensionsSheet: 24 5/8 × 21 1/2 in. (62.5 × 54.6 cm)
Additional Dimension: 43 1/2 × 37 1/4 in. (110.5 × 94.6 cm)
Additional Dimension: 43 1/2 × 37 1/4 in. (110.5 × 94.6 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1984.68
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Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1984.68
On View
Not on viewDine's painterly images of everyday objects convey the often deadpan attitude of Pop artists toward the quality of human experience in a commercial-oriented culture. Dine's frequent use of heart imagery becomes in L.A. Eye Works both a banal symbol of human emotion and a pun on the title of the print. Simultaneously forming the shapes of four hearts and two pairs of spectacle frames, the imagery acts as a "window to the soul" in an ultimately whimsical fashion.
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