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...Dine, 26, is one of those artists who are hard to take seriously and equally hard to laugh off. They produce kooky art so earnestly that it makes a certain sense. In his current show at Manhattan's Martha Jackson Gallery, Dine concentrates on paintings of articles of clothing -suspenders, shoes, hats, and a gaudy parade of neckties. Dine fans have bought up three-fourths of the paintings, and the show boasts a learned interpretation by the British critic Lawrence Alloway. who was recently named curator at the Guggenheim...
Cincinnati-born Dine hit the Manhattan scene only three years ago, but his name is one to reckon with in avantgarde circles. Like a number of other rebels against abstract art, he began producing art not out of paint and canvas, but out of everyday objects. "I loved the city." he says, "I loved seeing so much being discarded. Every time you turned a corner, you'd see in the next trash can some wonderful piece of sculpture.'' So Dine became a member of the "found object" school-a group dedicated to the proposition that many...
Four-Sided Collages. At one point Dine took up what has become known as "happenings." which are essentially ideas or feelings spontaneously acted out for an audience against a background of painted props. In one of his happenings called The Smiling Workman, Dine was seen writing ''I love what" in orange paint and "I'm doing" in blue. He then dumped the two cans of paint over his head to show "the feeling of a happy, compulsive painter, which I am." About the same time. Dine began experimenting with "environments," or "four-sided collages...
...small plots of land, raise chickens and pigs privately in addition to their work in the production brigades, and sell their produce in the towns and keep the profits. This has promoted a black market in edibles that flow to special luxury restaurants, where highly paid government officials can dine without ration cards. But the limited "free market" produces its own social problems; it not only encourages conspicuous luxury buying by a privileged few in full view of the hungry masses, but also puts money in the hands of peasants who can find nothing to spend...
...that the Russian ideal was changing. Down 15 Ibs. (from 150), her ash-blonde hair brushed back in a casual sweep, newly chic in a slim, turquoise linen suit, Katya asked the curious women reporters who greeted her at the airport: "What do you think I should wear to dine with an earl...