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...Mirko Basaldella (he prefers to use only the first name) wants to "give students the grammar to express themselves." The design programs he directs at the Carpenter Center differ radically from traditional figure study and painting practice...
...Mirko is a most wordlessly cloquent grammar teacher. He visits all the classes in the VAC occasionally. When he dropped in on one VES 20 section he moved a one inch black square into a big white area on a figure-ground exercise. Instantly the design improved 100 per cent -- you knew what "activating space" meant and what a square could do, although it would take ten pages to explain it in writing...
...Mirko came to America in 1957 to organize the University's design courses, although he was already an established sculptor and had designed the famous bronze gates for the Ardeatine Caves in Rome. He teaches because he's interested in students and wants to give them "something different [in training] than what I had." Mirko studied traditional art school methods in Italy...
Sometimes the teachers at the Carpenter Center can drive students to incessant nail-biting and general anger. In all the design workshop, including Mirko's own, people gripe, "He's absolutely incomprehensible and he just wants us to do everything...
...student said, "The secret to success in Mirko's course is to get the project done while he's not looking. Otherwise he poses too many questions that you can't resolve." And Mirko supposedly teaches by the Socratic method--he asks questions until you come to his conclusions...