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Mirka Mora (Australian) - Elephant Doll (hand-painted soft sculpture)

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In 1985, Victoria was celebrating its sesquicentennial and many a bright sparkling artwork adorned the streets of Melbourne.

Most of them are long gone now. This iconic mosaic mural at Flinders Street Station is the one that stayed. The person behind this beautiful mural was Mirka Mora, who sadly passed away 7 years ago.

Melbourne was full of colour then.

Melbourne Underground Rail Loop was brand spanking new.

David Wang store near Parliament, Bourke Street Mall buskers, hot dimmies and a cappuccino at the coffee lounge with the tabletop jukeboxes.

Things change. But Mirka Mora is an apt time capsule for a Melbourne that has gone. As time goes on.

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Mirka Mora - Angels with Red Bird. 1986

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Mirka Mora (1928 – 2018)

Mirka Madeleine Mora (née Zelik; 18 March 1928 – 27 August 2018) was a French-born Australian visual artist and cultural figure who contributed significantly to the development of Australian contemporary art. Her media included drawing, painting, sculpture and mosaic.

Mirka Mora was born on 18 March[citation needed] 1928 in Paris to a Lithuanian Jewish father, Leon Zelik, and a Romanian Jewish mother, Celia Gelbein. She was arrested in 1942 during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv). Her father, Leon, managed to arrange for her release from the concentration camp at Pithiviers (Loiret) before Mora and her mother were scheduled to be deported to Auschwitz. The family evaded arrest and deportation from 1942 to 1945 by hiding in the forests of France.

After the war, 17-year-old Mirka met a wartime resistance fighter Georges Mora in Paris. They married in 1947.

In an interview in 2004, Mora said: I really wanted to make love to him, because I was very humiliated that he didn't because I was 17, and he said, "I know that you are not happy but we have to wait till we get married." "Ah! Married?" So I agreed to get married to lose my virginity. That's true.

The Vel' d'Hiv' Roundup ( [vel ˈdiv] vell-DEEV; from French: la rafle du Vel' d'Hiv', an abbreviation of la rafle du Vélodrome d'Hiver) was a mass arrest of Jews in Paris on 16–17 July 1942 by Vichy French police at the behest of the German occupational authorities. Occurring during World War II, Jews arrested during the roundup were deported to Nazi Germany and targeted for extermination as part of the Holocaust. all via Wikipedia

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So in our art class we're doing a task on Mirka Mora (some girl who made 'soft sculptures" or teddies. So after we've completed the task if I'm good at it I'm going to ask my art teacher where she got the supplies and then make a Kiyotaka plushie! :0 and some other Danganronpa ones because I'd rather not spend $60 aud on a Mondo, Taka, Kaito, Souda, and Tenko plushie lol.

Here's what we've done so far:

Draw in pencil your trace on an A3 paper of what you want to make, outline in black sharpie.

I don't know what the fabric is but you fold it in half and then trace it, then paint it.

That's what I'm up to, then I think after both sides are painted you cut it out, stuff, and sew it. I'll reblog in more detail when I've finished the task.

Also, my art teacher hates me and I hate her (lazy teachers are incompetent and the worst) so wish me luck (she's going to give me a bad grade, betcha.)