the heart

Thought behind the thought: 

With a very heavy heart we bid our final adieu to the matriarch of the family last week. She is survived by four children and an extended family that stretches beyond thirty five odd people. We all were there as the last rites were performed. It was rather interesting to see how one person goes on extending their heart and welcoming so many people into it through a long life of nine decades. She not only made room for each one of us present that day but in the process found a special place in our hearts for her. There is no limit to how many people one heart can accommodate. All you need is compassion and humanity and absolute ability to be non judgemental of people and their intentions. Ajji this quote is truly a tribute to you that I offer in all humility.

About the Art: 

So, can an artist really do the same, go on repeating a subject over and over again yet express it in innumerable new and exciting ways. In doing so each time something innovative emerges out of the exercise. New emotions, expressions and feelings arise from the works. Jim Dine is an artist affiliated with the Pop Art movement of the early 1960s. Associating mainly with the gestural and expressionistic aspect of Pop Art, Dine concentrates on repetition of the subject as an approach to his work. His key subjects include hearts, robes, tools, gates, trees, Pinocchio, plants, birds, and headless Venus de Milos. The hearts and robes are possibly Dine’s most beloved, signature subjects and the artist has come back to them several times in his artistic journey. So in art too we end up doing the same thing over and over again and there is no limit to that. Yet in each new association there is something unique and exceptional which was worth the effort.

The Blue Heart, 2005

Yellow Marks, 2013

The Pale Blue Line, 2014

Chartres, 2014

Credits:

https://www.artsy.net/artist/jim-dine/works