Word: mirko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the courses presently given which will be continued in the new building are the architectural sciences course now given in the Design Workshop, where students experiment with form, texture, and color under the direction of the sculptor, Mirko Basaldella...
Direction of the workshop rests with Mirko Basldella, noted Italian artist who joined the Department two years ago. Under his guidance students experiment with the properties of line, color, texture and the various media. The courses are not directed to architectural design but are rather concerned with having the student gain experience with "the fundamentals of design" in its widest sense; and consequently the students play with three dimensional wire models, geometric patterns, and metal masks. The presence of a first rate artist directing the courses is note-worthy; it is comparable in kind, if perhaps not in degree...
Afro's memories go back to his childhood at Udine, near Venice, where his father was a decorator-painter. The youngest of three artist sons of the Basaldella family. Afro decided to use only his first name to distinguish himself from his elder brothers. Sculptors Mirko and Dino Basaldella. In a rigorous academic training at Venice, Afro studied the Venetians Giorgione. Titian and Tintoretto, incorporates their delight in light effects in his paintings with such mastery that the colors seem to float ambiguously before and behind the canvas surface...
...Mirko Basaldella, internationally known Italian sculptor, has assumed his duties as Director of the University's Design Workshop...
...exhibit of Mr. Basaldella's work, signed simply Mirko, will be shown at the Fogg Art Museum later this year. His sculpture has been exhibited through Europe and the United States...