Few artists working today can draw better than Jim Dine, but he usually trains his talent on cloyingly sentimental themes like bathrobes and valentine hearts about to burst.
Heart Lake is so named due to its irregular shape of a valentine heart.
"Daddy's Little Girl" (2000) depicts an awkward-looking young girl surrounded by floating valentine hearts.
But I have taken those words to my laced, bejeweled, solid-chocolate valentine heart.
He became permanently identified with these works - the bathrobe, the valentine heart, the Venus de Milo.
A rustic Windsor-style chair called "Buzzz Me Baby" has silhouettes of a beehive, valentine hearts, flowers and two people kissing carved in wood to form the back.
She holds out muscular maternal arms and has an embroidered valentine heart embedded in her chest, gold at the center with a purple and red halo.
It includes a seductive mermaid, a valentine heart, a three-masted schooner, flags of Britain and the United States and a laurel leaf around the sailor's navel.
Some drawings are cut in the shape of fans and valentine hearts.
She had on a pants suit today, black, with a large red valentine heart over the left breast.
