Jim Dine's Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets): A Documentary

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Statuette of a Dancer Playing the Lyre, Greek, 200–100 B.C.
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Twisting her body into an ecstatic pose, a woman dances while playing a lyre. Terracotta statuettes like this one were very popular in the Hellenistic period. Learn more about this sculpture which inspired Dine.

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Poet as Orpheus with Two Sirens, Greek, about 350–300 B.C.
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A seated man is flanked by sirens, creatures part bird and part woman, in this nearly life-size terracotta group. In Greek mythology, the singing of the sirens lured sailors to their deaths; thus the creatures have general funerary connotations. The seated man is also a singer, as shown by his open mouth and his now-missing lyre, which he once cradled in his left arm. Learn more about this sculpture which inspired Dine.

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Statuette of a Dancer, Greek, 300–200 B.C.
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A dancer steps forward, looking downward as she moves. Her dress swirls around her feet and the edges of her enveloping cloak flare out at her sides. She wears an ivy wreath in her stylishly arranged hair. Learn more about this sculpture which inspired Dine.

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The Getty Villa
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The Getty Villa in Malibu is an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. Learn more about the history of the Getty Villa.

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History of the Getty Villa
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The history of the Getty Villa, in Malibu, California, is highlighted in this video.

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Conversation with Jim Dine
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Jim Dine discusses his sculpture, drawing, and sound installation Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets)—created in response to works of art in the antiquities collection at the Getty Villa—with art critic Vincent Katz. Watch the conversation.

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Special Installation at the Getty Villa
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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.

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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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