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Jim Dine’s Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets) was the first contemporary art project at the Getty Villa.
Image: Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets) (detail), Jim Dine, 2008. Courtesy of the artist. Art © 2008 Jim Dine/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Learn more about this special installation of sculpture and poetry.
In 2008, artist Jim Dine created an installation for the Museum at the Getty Villa. The first contemporary art project at the Villa, the work presents new sculpture and poetry by Dine inspired by ancient objects in the Museum's collection. Two ancient Greek statuettes of dancing women, are magnified in Dine's four eight-foot-high painted wood female figures. Their arrangement around a seven-foot-high self-portrait head echoes the sculptural group Poet as Orpheus with Two Sirens. The artist's highly personal vision finds further expression in a poem drawn on the walls, with its Orphic themes of travel, loss, and the possibilities of art. Dine describes his creative process in this documentary.
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