Art Coursework Artist Analysis

by mukeanythin (student)

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.

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Dine has used block colours to colour the hanging tools, mostly giving each tool an individual colour but some have been given a rainbow pattern. This gives it a very vibrant look and draws all you’re attention up to the small part at the top of the massive 1.5m x 1.5m sculpture rather than the blank bottom of the canvas. Behind all the coloured tools Dine has stencilled on outlines of tools in random potions but all hanging down like the other objects. The silhouettes look like an object has been placed there earlier whilst Dine spray diffused it ...

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Light is being shone onto the sculpture head on casting shadows behind the tools giving it further depth behind them. Apart from this no effort has been made to give artificial shadows to the paining on the tools, no changes in gradient just block colours. Most of the background is plain white canvas except for the spray-diffused silhouettes. Most of the attention is to the row hanging tools, they are unorganized except for the fact they all hang vertically down, Dine has made no effort to keep them neat. The objects still have a shine to them, which is either from paint or a glaze, this means that the objects keep their metallic look.

The colour gives it a fun and Pop-Arty mood of the period it was made, it gives a different look at the ordinary. This piece was made in 1962 and was part of a phase when he was part of a group during the time that was linked with the Pop-Art movement.

I will use the style of Jim Dine’s work in my final exam piece. He uses a spray diffused background with silohets of the tools he uses as stensils. I will create a 2-D piece with stensiled silohets on a spray diffused background, and then in my own styles which I have tested and progressed in my trial pieces, I will work back into the silohets in a range of different medium. It wont have the 3-D part but it will be in the style. I will also use his block colour style using a few colours for each tool and adding detail in through pencil or pen.