Mirka Mora 'Portrait in Chiaroscuro' mixed media In this sketch of Barbara

In this sketch of Barbara

it also represented his attitude at large

with trees wilting over the glass-like water

cyanotype on paper

Russian Constructivism

Mirka Mora 'Portrait in Chiaroscuro' mixed media In this sketch of BarbaraThe visual world of Mirka Mora, matriarch of the Melbourne art scene, was fantastical. Creatures human, animal and hybrid dance throughout, inspired by Eastern European fairy tales, angels and ancient mythology, as well as Moras own fecund imagination an act of resilience in light of her familys plight during the Second World War. She spent her adolescence hiding between French villages and forests evading capture; her immediate family were condemned