Jim Dine: The Modern Art Movement

Jim Dine is an American pop artist and abstract expressionist that although he did not identify himself with a specific movement, his vast paintings, drawings and works on paper, sculptures etc. reflect his inclinations. His early art works consisted of tools and other objects that he began to draw and attach to his canvases, these providing him commercial success as well as criticisms, enabling him to develop his career further and reflect the modern art movement which was widely increasing in popularity at the time.

This first example reflects well his style of working that really puts the object into advantage, almost like an advertisement type of poster for mechanical tools that is meant to attract customers.

His use of warm colours is very effective as it gives the piece a natural as well as harmonious look. The blurred background that seems to show a landscape, suggested from the title, is meant to show that the focus is on the object in front. The wrench has some 3D qualities to it, achieved by the way Jim Dine used tones to show in detail the structure and design of the mechanical tool, seen from the side view. This can also be seen as a figurative view of the object, hanging freely in space with no surface to stand on, again taking away the focus from the background to the object.
It shows extreme realism and precise tonality of both the object in the middle and background, which is possibly a piece of folded paper. It has a controlled movement mostly throughout, slightly abstracting it at the bottom, the object kind of mixing up with the background.

He uses the natural shape of the tool and he likes to accentuate the metal parts of the objects by using tones and of dark and very light for the shiny