ART DUBAIDISCOVERY TOURS

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Welcome to Art Dubai! Start your exploration through the fair with this Discovery Tour. The gallery halls are filled with artworks by artists from around the world. Enjoy looking, talking, drawing, writing and discovering together.

. 1 Olya Kroytor, Situation, 2015, Courtesy of the Artist and Artwin. 2 Walid Siti, The Tower, 2015, Courtesy of the Artist and Galeri Zilberman . 3 Issay Rodriguez, Soft Ignorance (Part Of In Between The Lines), 2015,

Courtesy of the Artist and 98B. 4 Bernard Buhmann, Untitled, 2015, Courtesy of the Artist and Carbon 12. 5 Jan Voss, Where Have you been all night?, 2015,

Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Lelong. 6 M. Vijitharan, Motherland I, 2015, Courtesy of the Artist and Saskia Fernando

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Artist Olya Kroytor is only 29 years old. She was born in Moscow. Olya creates paper collages and wooden objects that combine graphic shapes, lines and cutout images from Russian newspapers as well as American comics. Here you see a collage of well-known chracters found in comic books, all mixed up together.

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If you were a comic book character, what would you look like? Would you have any special powers? Draw your comic book character below.

Can you find the 5 real ducks hidden in the collage of cartoons? You have 20 seconds!

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Walid Siti uses wooden sticks in his artwork to construct his own version of the mythical Tower of Babel in the land of Mesopotamia (Ancient Iraq). The myth says that the tower reached up very high in the sky, much like the modern skyscrapers of today.

What do you think the Tower of Babel looked like on the inside? Draw what is happening on each floor!

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Information is available everywhere, on the internet, newspapers, books and TV. Issay Rodriguez takes a step back to think about today’s reality of knowledge and information through observations in her artwork.

What is the last book you read? What is your favourite book?

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Draw a cover for this book

MY DAY IN ART DUBAI

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Jan Voss experiments with different drawing styles and techniques to create colourful scenes of movement and chaos. The characters and objects in his paintings seem vibrant and active.

Make your own LOUD drawing: Start by making marks on the page very quickly. Use your arms, elbows and whole body to make the drawing

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Draw a quiet drawing. Listen to the sounds your pencil makes on the paper. Keep the pencil noises very quiet and calm. Draw very slowly and very carefully...

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Bernhard Buhmann makes very large paintings of various shapes and colours to create the illusion of a more colourful world.

How many different shapes can you see in the painting?

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Try to fit 10 shapes into each frame

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In this artwork, artist M. Vijitharan has created drawings in little seashells to represent different memories of people and places in their lives

What is your favourite place in the whole world? Draw your favourite place in the seashell. Ask an adult to help you cut out your seashell drawing and stick it on a wall in your room.

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KEY WORDS

Collage: A piece of art made by sticking different images and materials such as photographs and newspaper clippings on to a new surface.

Regular Shape: A shape with sides that are all equal and interior (inside) angles that are all equal.

Irregular shape: A shape with sides and angles of any length and size

Skyscraper: A very tall building with many floors. Like Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which holds the record for tallest building in the world.

Chaos: Complete confusion, madness.

Order: Organization and arragement of people or things in a particular pattern.

Memory: An experience from the past that is stored in the brain.

Observation: the action or process of closely watching or monitoring something or someone.