WSR Interview with Harry Bertoia NewsCast.

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Harry Bertoia

WSR NewsCast

“If you look at these chairs, they are mainly made of air, like sculpture. Space passes right through them.”

-Harry Bertoia

Saade: “ I am here with Harry Bertoia”. The Artist, and The Philosopher, “Hello Art History class of Stevenson University my name is Saade J. Matthews I am a Visual Arts and Communication and Design student. I am joined here with Mr. Harry Bertoia,

“Did I pronounce that correct Mr. Bertoia?”

Harry Bertoia:

“Yes, you pronounced that corrected you have a nice autentico pronunciation.

Saade:

” Thank you so much!” I am used to speaking some French and Spanish but noone has ever said that I had a nice Italian accent before. “grazie mille”!

Saade:

” I spoke with your daughter, Lesta and son Val, this morning the two stated you were visiting back in your hometown of San Lorenzo, Friull Italy?…How are you today on this misty but beautiful morning?

“Harry Bertoia:”

I am great today, thank you very much, Saade!”.

Saade:

“Mr. Bertoia What professional background do you profess to be to the world”?

Harry Bertoia:

” Nice Question I profess to be a , Printmaker, Jeweler, furniture designer and Sculptor as well as Philosopher.”

Saade:

Mr. Bertoia that is a very inspirational to all artistic students Mr. Bertoia, ” How much strength in your design process did you build when Knoll introduced The Bertoia Diamond chair series in 1952?

Harry Bertoia:

I gained a lot of momentum and strength from when I introduced my first chair. I made sure all the live production was done for the Items. I remember setting up my shop in a old fume escaping and inhaling garage building.”

Saade:

Mr. Bertoia, I commend you on your work that you have done with the Diamond chair. Does it feel amazing to have several of your work chairs completed designs for Knolls?

Mr. Bertoia:

Yes, Miss. Matthews he compensated me very generously and my work was very popular and part of the ” modern” furniture movement. I was able to purchase my dream farmhouse I was renting to become a owner of a house!

Saade:

“Mr. Bertoia, I want to also congratulate you on your first architectural sculpture commission that you earned in 1953 for the Motors Technical Center, thanks to your fellow designer Cranbook pal Eero Saarinen. It made its debut placed on the altar in the Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chapel shortly after you earned your commission in 1953, that is a foreshadowing of amazing strength and perseverance.”

Saade:

“What do you think was one of your weakness from your successful lifestyle?”

Mr. Bertoia:

Saade, I think one of my weaknesses from my lifestyle was spending a lot of time around materials of beryllium copper and toxic fumes, I think that contributed to my lung cancer that will not expel out of my body.”

Saade:

“Mr Bertoia what do you think was a Opportunity that you had in your life to become so successful as a Printmaker, Jeweler, furniture Designer, Sculptor as well as Philosopher?”

Mr. Bertoia: ” That’s another great question, Saade, as a Italian born American. I came to the great United States of America searching for the American dream, where I can image my future and design my career like the motto that you use as a Wild Stang at Stevenson University. I wanted to live my dream to become a painter as well as design brides wedding day linen and embroidery patterns. I wanted to use my opportunity to gather scholarship money from The Art School of Detroit to enrich my paint and drawing skills to enter local art competitions. America was my place to grow! Home of the free land of brave souls.”

Saade:

“What was a threat that you encountered throughout your career as a sculptor, jeweler, and print maker designer”?

Mr. Bertoia:

“Saade, I encountered a threat of getting lung cancer, not spending time to maintain my chickens and cows and goats around my farm house. I also haven’t had time to teach other students, Negro or Caucasian the proper ascetics they need to have a better understanding on how to embroidery print and market themselves in America.”

Saade:

“Amazing statement Mr. Bertoia, it was a pleasure to meet you and speak to your daughter Lessa I know you were influenced by your mentors Florence Shust ( Knolls), Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen.Thank you for doing a news-broadcast for the WildStang radio here at Stevenson University Grazie Mille! Very nice to meet you, the artist and philosopher Harry Bertoia.”

Mr. Bertoia:

“ Nice to meet you as well, lovely lady Saade, best wishes to you young astute, successful lad”.

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Analyzing Atomic Style Design

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Imagery Design forces are a images that are portrayed in a household through furniture and paintings.People consume products that are based upon their upbringing and cultural contributions. Atomic elements are also constructed in geometric shapes and there uses for elements red,cyan, and yellow elements also oval spaces, lines and from my observation shapes are an inch away example of the plate located away for lines on each other. The directions of the shapes from atomic Style are very much in the principle of shape being of positive imagery. The texture of the oak wood is very rough, organic and not smooth in Imagery Design as shown above in the picture of the cat with inside the red briefcase example. Product designers can use methods to compare differences between their original designs and the new green modules. Product Designer perform necessary design modifications to make the design appeal to the consumer.A table lamp and a motor are used as case study examples to show the effectiveness of the atomic-theory-based green product design method. Atomic Design was a protection against radiation. Lava lamps were invented as well as computers were all sources of effective design from the Cold War era. Pyrex was advertised in color mainly red, green, blue and yellow.Chef Boyaardee was founded by Ettore ” Hector”.To produce during War War 2 to shield from problems going on over seas in the Cold War from Germany. I gained a handful of information researching these topics of design.

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Universaille Worlds Fair 1920s.

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Hugo Ball

The German Artist and poet Hugo Ball’s final performance at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich marked the beginning of a new genre variously known as sound poems, poems without words, or abstract poems. To construct them language is broken down into its abstract parts syllables and letters reconfigured as meaningless sounds. Poems in which multiple languages are read at once rendering each unintelligible offered an alternative approach to abstract poetry. By destroying everyday language, soundpoems offered both a metaphor for the destruction caused by war and a commentary on the deceitfulness of language. Wariness of the competing nationalisms that fueled the war also led Dadaists to resist any particular language, a primary indicator of national identity.

James Joyce

A Irish Born Novelist Joyce was born at 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin, on 2 February 1882. His father invested unwisely, and the family’s fortunes declined steadily. Joyce graduated from University College, Dublin, in 1902; briefly studied medicine in Paris, but his mother’s death brought him back to Dublin. In 1904, Joyce began Stephen Hero, which he later reworked as A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

He also met Nora Barnacle, 428202-110813-nora-barnacle

a chambermaid, and on 16 June 1904 they went walking at Ringsend, at the Liffey’s mouth; Joyce later chose that date for the events recorded in Ulysses. Having briefly shared a Martello tower at Sandycove, Co Dublin, with Oliver StJohn Gogarty, he sailed from Dublin with Nora inOctober 1904. Joyce found work in a language school in Trieste. In 1909, he made two trips to Dublin, to arrange publication of Dubliners, and to open a short-lived cinema. Ulysses, was his masterpiece. Serialised in New Yorkin 1918-20, but was eventually halted by a court action. Joyce returned to Trieste in 1919, then moved to Paris, where in 1922 Ulysses

was published by Sylvia Beach, owner of a celebrated bookshop.

Its portrait of Dublin, and of the Jewish advertisement canvasser Leopold Bloom, revolutionized the novel with its ‘stream of consciousness’ technique;it was not published in Britain until 1936. In 1923, Joyce began the almost impenetrable Finnegans Wake, which was published in 1939. Joyce and Nora finally married in 1931, and in 1940 returned to Zurich, Switzerland before his death in January 1941.

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Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

Monsieur Proust, born to very supportive parents living in Paris. Proust Father was a doctor and his mother came from a rich and cultured Jewish family. His literary talent became evident during his high school years. He began to frequent salons such as that of Mme. Arman, a friend of Anatole France. Under the patronage of the latter, Proust published in 1896 his first book, Les Plaisirs et les Jours, a collection of short stories, essays and poems.

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Proust had begun in autumn 1895 a novel which he later abandoned in autumn 1899 and never finished. Published in 1952 as Jean Santeui 719800580_tp l.

After this second setback, Proust devoted several years to translating and annotating the works of the English art historian John Ruskin. He published a number of articles on Ruskin,

as well as two translations

La Bible d’Amiens in 1904

In February of 1907 he published in Le Figaro an article entitled “Sentiments filiaux d’un parricide”, in which he set out to analyze two elements.

Early in 1908 Proust wrote for Le Figaro

a series of pastiches in which he imitated the style of Balzac, Michelet, Flaubert, Sainte-Beuve and other prose writers of the nineteenth century.

During this time he began his novel, although he fully intended to continue to write essays of literary, artistic and sociological criticism. One of these he was devoted to was Sainte-Beuve. In May of 1913 he adopted for this novel the title À la recherche du temps perdu.