MIRKA MORA: PAS DE DEUX - DRAWINGS AND DOLLS

Be an art detective and spell out the mystery words with this fun activity for kids and parents or carers to do together. Follow the directions and use the clues to discover the answer. Suitable for children and adults of all ages.

DIRECTION SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT CLUE ANSWER 1. Start at the big Mirka and her husband Georges Can you see angels in the sky photograph of the artist Mora arrived in from playing instruments? One is Mirka Mora at the France in 1951. Since this time playing a pink guitar and the entrance and turn right. Mirka’s art has filled the city with others are playing green Look at the wall of joy and colour! She created ______P __ T __ drawings to your right for , mosaics, soft an artwork with three , dolls, embroidery, Fill in the blanks in this word. crowned men in an orange murals and many drawings. Write the fourth letter of this boat. “Mirka the hard worker” liked to word in the ANSWER box -> draw for three hours or more This is your first clue! every day! 2. Walk along this wall and Mirka said that the serpent in her The title of this artwork has look for a drawing of a drawings is a symbol of two meanings. This spelling of person and their pet called knowledge or wisdom. She drew “Tale” refers to the pet having My Pet has a Serpent’s it when she felt she understood a “tale” (or a story) about a Tale. something. serpent, but the image refers Sometimes it represents the to the pet having a “tail” like a serpent that tempted Adam and serpent. Eve to eat a forbidden apple in What is another name for a the Garden of Eden. Mirka’s serpent? response to this story was always ______K__ “I have to eat that apple!” Write the third letter of this word in the ANSWER box -> This is your second clue!

3. Walk into the purple room This artwork looks like many little One of these drawings is of a nearby and search for an windows. Did you know that piece of furniture. What is this artwork comprising of 16 Mirka Mora painted a mural on piece of furniture called? small square drawings. the sunroom windows of the Heide I cottage in 2010? ______You can still see this mural if you visit Heide I whilst at the Heide The fourth letter of this word Museum today! is your next clue. Write it here ->

DIRECTION SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT CLUE ANSWER 4. Leave this room and Mirka Mora often made artworks Look at label for this artwork. re-enter the large room. showing two figures conjoined Mirka has used two different This time look on the wall (attached to each other). drawing mediums in this to your right for a drawing Sometimes these figures are artwork. Pastel and of two figures with a pink people and sometimes they are ______R ______L and yellow background. animals or mythical creatures. To The second to last letter of Mirka, being conjoined this word is your next clue. represented closeness, friendship Write this letter here -> and love. 5. Walk into the next large Mirka began making dolls in the Two of these sculptures depict room and into a world of 1970’s. They were three a single-horned creature. dolls! On your left is a wall dimensional versions of her What do we call a mythical of soft sculptures on drawings. horse with a horn on its shelves. Mirka loved to play with her dolls forehead? and said they were her friends. ______C ______The fifth letter of this creature is your next clue.

6. Turn right to see a large Before Mirka came to Read the wall text for these purple clown she was a student at the Jean- two artworks to learn the hanging on the wall and a Louis Barrault theatre school in name of the clown character, drawing of the same clown where she studied drama played by Marcel Marceau. with angel’s wings. and mime. The famous mime Write this below. artist and actor, Marcel Marceau was her teacher and the clown ______doll was created by Mirka and The middle letter of this word painted by Marceau when they is your next clue. Write this met up again in later life. letter here ->

7. Turn around and look for a Mirka had a cheeky sense of Walk around the sculptures on round table full of puppet- humour and loved laughter. One the table to answer the below like sculptures. Some of day on her birthday she was sitting question. these sculptures look like in a restaurant with all of her What is U for? court jesters or the joker friends when the waiter presented card from a deck of cards. her with a huge decorated ______D ______E Notice that some of these birthday cake. As soon as he put it

sculptures have a rolled up on the table, Mirka plunged her The repeated letter of this newspaper or old books face right in the middle of it and girl’s name is your next clue. for a body! came up smiling with a face full of Write this letter here -> chocolate and cream!

8. Odd one out game! 1. Look at the window side of this room to see some teddy bear paintings on the wall. Look for a teddy called “Wolfy” and stand in front of this artwork.

2. Now turn around and look at the round table closest to you.

3. Can you find the sculptures below on the table in front of you?

4. One of the below sculptures is NOT on this table. The letter in the box with the sculpture you can NOT see on this table is your next clue!

ANSWER

5. Write this letter in this box here ->

DIRECTION SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT CLUE ANSWER 9. Move two tables to To Mirka a mermaid meant Look at the mermaid sculptures your left to find a “escape”. She believed that and find the words to complete table full of fish- everyone needed to escape and the text below: tailed mermaid have some time alone to think sculptures. about things. She said that this __ W ______was a “nice escape”. However, it is __ __ S ______E also important to make sure that

you come back! Mirka said, “The The last letter of the first word mermaid does not escape to is your next clue! disappear, but to return”.

10. Turn around and The dogs that appear in Mirka’s Look for a hanging sculpture of look up. In the air works are based on her friend’s a dog with a bird on its head. behind you, you will real life dogs called Ambrose and Count how many faces in total see a mobile of Percy. The birds that appear in her can you see on this sculpture? hanging sculptures. works are there to watch Write this number below everybody but Mirka siad they can also cause mischief. A bird “tells F ______you things if you listen to him. He is your friend really, even when he The second letter of this word is a trouble maker.” is your next clue!

11. Turn right and go to When Mirka Mora was pregnant Look at the shape and details of the wall on the left with her third baby, her good this sculpture and you will side of the doorway. friend, the artist notice that it is the same as Again you will find asked her “Why do you always another sculpture on this wall. some soft sculptures draw little angels with four toes?” on shelves. Mirka replied “That’s how my What colour shirt is the colour hand does it I can’t do anything version of this sculpture Look for a sculpture about it!” When her baby was wearing? that is almost born, a very strange thing completely coloured happened. The baby had only four ______K black! toes on one of its feet! The third letter of this word is your final clue!

Write down the letters you have collected, un-jumble them and use them to find the answer to the missing word in this wonderful quote by Mirka Mora below. (We have already put some letters in to get you started)

“ART IS THE CHILD OF __ M __ __ I __ __ T ______AND GIVES LIFE” (HINT* You can check your answer to this puzzle on the ramp outside this gallery)

BONUS CHALLENGE: Take inspiration from Mirka’s artworks and her quote above to create your own mythical landscape by adding to the symbols below.

BONUS HIDE AND SEEK GAME! Can you find the artworks below in this room? They might be on a table, on the wall or even hanging from the ceiling! If you need a hint, we have provided one for you for each artwork. Tick the “FOUND” box once you have found them!

1. FACE THE BIG WINDOW AND SEARCH THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROOM FOR THESE ARTWORKS.

DIFFICULTY CAN YOU FIND? HINT FOUND! EASY An orange snake with two Look on the table next to the mermaid you found in heads question 9 MEDIUM A white-winged devil Look on a table next to the sculptures you were finding in question 8 EASY A flower with blue petals and Look on the table next to the mermaid you found in a green face on one side question 9 MEDIUM A big mermaid with a yellow Look on the wall where you found the unicorn tail and green hair sculptures in question 5 MEDIUM A black “bat-cat” with green Look on the table next to the mermaid you found in hands and a red rectangle on question 9 its body HARD A very small angel with black Look for a table with many small babies and angels near hair, a red jumper and one the large entrance to this room blue wing with white spots MEDIUM A Siamese cat with blue eyes Look on the table closest to the window with cat sculptures on it

2. FACE THE BIG WINDOW AND LOOK SEARCH THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROOM FOR THESE ARTWORKS.

DIFFICULTY CAN YOU FIND? HINT FOUND! EASY A school girl doll with a red Look on a table in the centre of the room beneath the and grey hat hanging sculptures you were looking at in question 10. HARD A very tiny pink panther Look for a table near the blue room where you can sculpture made out of clay make your own cut-out doll. This table has very tiny with a missing arm dolls on it. Some of these made from clay. MEDIUM A person holding two dogs. Look on a table in the centre of the room, below the On one side these dogs are hanging sculptures you were looking at in question 10. brown. On the other side the dogs are green or yellow MEDIUM A girl with red and blue Look on the wall where you found the sculptures in clothing sitting on a brick question 11 wall with a yellow dog and a tree EASY A red-eyed teddy bear This is not a sculpture. This is a .

MEDIUM A completely black horse or Look on a table near the doorway to this room beneath donkey with a secret person the hanging sculptures from question 10 on the back HARD A stitched picture of two Look for a table near the blue room where you can angels holding a heart. make your own cut-out doll. This is not a sculpture it is a Below them is a red two- hand stitched tapestry. headed snake.