GCSE Art - Power - Kintsugi - broken things remade with gold - Billie Bond

 

Naoko Fukumaru, Bowels of The Earth — Water, 2020

Kintsugi is a Japanese concept to do with rebuilding and overcoming difficulties. For over 500 years Japanese Potters have been fixing shattered, cracked or broken Pottery using a mixture of tree sap ( as a glue) and powdered gold. This way the repair and the original breaks are not hidden they are celebrated.

Billie Bond

Sculptures fragments are joined together using a gold coloured resin, applying the Kintsugi philosophy to sculpture

Kintsugi - BILLIE BOND (billiebondart.com)

Constructivism and Socialist Realism

 Constructivism

Definition: A style or movement in which assorted mechanical objects are combined into abstract mobile structural forms


 Constructivism roots are in 1913 with the Russian Revolution as an attempt to produce art that presented the achievements and positive side of life in Russia after the revolution 

careful when looking for examples on the web as lots of artists and designers have borrowed from Russian propaganda and constructivism images

Book cover in the style of Russian Constructivism

GCSE 2024 Force Thrones - Symbols of Power - Throne of Weapons

 

This is a sculpture made from de-comissioned guns collected in at the end of the Civil War in Mozambique in Southern Africa

Throne of Weapons - Wikipedia

The same Artist was part of a group comissioned to make the Tree Of Life, also made out of de-comissioned weaons, currently exhibited At The British Museum London

 

GCSE 2024 'Force' Kelly Reemtsen Juxtaposition of Chic Dresses and Power Tools

Kelly Reemtsen

Kelly Reemtsen's Painterly Juxtapositions of Chic Dresses and Power Tools Showcase Modern Femininity — Colossal (thisiscolossal.com)

https://www.kellyreemtsen.com/