Jim Dine College Essay Example

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 leaving a blank spot where the tool once was. This background gives the illusion of another layer of tools behind the first one.

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.