The Exotic Teapot

Faktura is a term associated with the Constructivists period during the Russian Revolution.  Constructivism could not be ‘art for art’s sake’; instead it had to reveal a social purpose or even a laboratory experiment.  The influence of Cubism and Futurism are present in most works of this era.  This teapot by Jacqueline Thompson pays homage to one of the leaders of Constructivism, female artist Varvara Stepanova, who later gained fame from her textile designs.