Jim Dine, artist

Because of Dine's use in his paintings of commonplace and commercial objects and images, his work has often been, too hastily, described as pop art. Dine himself feels that, "Pop is concerned with exteriors, I'm concerned with interiors. When I use objects, I see them as a vocabulary of feelings." On occasion his vocabulary has included his suit, his shoes, plumbing fixtures, and a whole lawnmower.

Tools have fascinated Dine since his childhood, when he puttered around his grandfather's workshop; and the color range he prefers reflects his early affection for the commercial paint charts in his father's hardware store.