The Crommelynck Gate with Tools
Artist: Jim Dine (American, born 1935)
Date: 1983
Dimensions:
H: 108 in. (274.3 cm); W: 131 1/4 in. (333.4 cm); Depth: 36 in. (91.4 cm)
Medium: Cast bronze.
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1984.77
Label Text:…from the time I was very small I found the display of tools in [my grandfather’s] store very satisfying…daydreaming amongst objects of affection was very nice.
To enter the Paris house and workshop of master printer Aldo Crommelynck, artist Jim Dine passed through a gracefully curving wrought iron gate. As Dine worked in the studio, the 19th-century gate was in full view through the window into the courtyard below. Eventually Dine dreamt about the gate. His dream led to the creation of The Crommelynck Gate with Tools.
For Dine, tools represent an alliance between work and imagination; they are symbols for the manual labor required to make art. While some of the tools on the gate look like they might work, they are actually sculptural forms rather than functional objects. In addition, the bronze casts of the tools are combined with casts of steel rods, tree branches, and twigs.
To enter the Paris house and workshop of master printer Aldo Crommelynck, artist Jim Dine passed through a gracefully curving wrought iron gate. As Dine worked in the studio, the 19th-century gate was in full view through the window into the courtyard below. Eventually Dine dreamt about the gate. His dream led to the creation of The Crommelynck Gate with Tools.
For Dine, tools represent an alliance between work and imagination; they are symbols for the manual labor required to make art. While some of the tools on the gate look like they might work, they are actually sculptural forms rather than functional objects. In addition, the bronze casts of the tools are combined with casts of steel rods, tree branches, and twigs.
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