Yellow Oil Can

1962

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Object description	Oil on canvas, oil can, hook, cord
Object category	sculpture
Dimensions	Objektmaß: height: 90 cm, width: 51 cm, depth: 17 cm, height: 64 cm, width: 51 cm, depth: 12 cm, height: 26 cm, width: 11 cm, height: 63 cm, width: 0,5 cm
Year of acquisition	1978
Inventory number	B 408/0
Creditline	mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, ehemals Sammlung Hahn, Köln
Rights reference	Bildrecht, Wien
Further information about the person	Dine, Jim [GND]

In 1958, Jim Dine came to New York where he went on to live for the next 10 years. In the same year he visited the first spectacular one man show by Jasper Johns which was of great influence to his further artistic career. Within a short period of time he made a name for himself with happenings and performances in the circle of Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg. From 1961 Dine refocused more on painting and took up central motifs of Johns and Rauschenberg’s aesthetic. These two artists are considered the decisive link between abstract expressionism which dominated the American art scene into the mid-fifties and the new reforming Pop Art movement. <k>Yellow Oil Can<k> of 1962 shows an oil can fixed with hooks and a string in front of a monochrome yellow painting. The pasty application of paint lends the canvas a tactile object-like appearance strongly reminiscent of the surfaces of John’s paintings. The profane oil can in turn which is incorporated in the overall composition by the yellow overpainting adds a mobile element to the static surface, and could just as well have come from a combine painting by Robert Rauschenberg. While giving the color an object-like character, and refunctioning a concrete object as a three dimensional painting’s surface, Dine entangles the level of art with the reality of everyday objects.

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