Luke Stavenuiter
Jim Dine
In this sculpture Dine takes normal everyday tools and adds a fun and colourful edge to them. Although ‘Five Feet of Colorful Tools’ is simple it does bring out the normal tools and gives them a vibrant look. It is very Pop-Art based, using a simple idea and lots of block simple colours. This would be a piece that would be displayed in an art expedition, as it is big and experimental, so would attract the attention of most people that are visiting.
In the piece Dine has hung up a multitude of assorted tools like saws and hammers, as you would find on any normal workbench. Then like other Pop-Art it has been distorted with colour but in this piece the shapes of the tools still remain. The title: ‘Five Feet of Colorful Tools’ is again simple like the piece and strait up describes it too. I don’t think that the piece gives a prominent message but to make normal objects more interesting in the form of art. It does seem different though because the tools are art in this sculpture compared to the tools making the art, this is very much like Pop-Art by putting a twist on the usual way of thinking or seeing.
