Word: bertoia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relationship of form and space; so the real design problem is the city. Saarinen taught us that harmony of form and mass doesn't stop at property lines but continues." The Bacon generation at Cranbrook included such notables of arts and architecture as Designer Charles Eames, Sculptor Harry Bertoia, Eliel's late son Eero, and Designer Florence Knoll...
...high and flare into unearthly petals. Eastman Kodak has built a plaza under an undulating roof of thin-shell concrete that plays hide-and-seek with geometry, now duncing up into conical pinnacles, now forming a hole so that real and artificial rains can pour through onto Sculptor Harry Bertoia's metal flowers below. People can walk up and down dale on the roof. Young boys go there and control the rains by pinching their fingers over dozens of brass nozzles, spraying all the girls below...
...more eclectic of the better dealers is polyglot George Staempfli, whose wares range from the elegant wired constructions of Harry Bertoia to the thick figure paintings of the late David Park to the haunting geometry of Painter Attilio Salemme. Otto Gerson deals mostly in first-rate sculpture from Barlach to David Smith. The Willard Gallery (Feininger, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Sculptor Richard Lippold) is excellent; so is John Bernard Myers' Tibor de Nagy Gallery, whose artists include Larry Rivers, Robert Goodnough and Fairfield Porter. In the print field, the sightseer or collector can do no better than start...
Like many abstract painters, Bertoia sees the universe as one great cup of energy. He is fascinated by the thought of "particles shooting through space," and the spiky mesh shown in color is his conception of the "track of these particles." Each wire had to be pulled separately through molten brass to give it a rough-textured coat. As wire after wire was welded into place, each tended to lose its identity. "The line," says Bertoia, "finally disappears and becomes a diffusion." In a sense, the sculpture has no beginning and no end. Though the particle tracks shoot...
Rustling Grain. For so dramatic a piece, the golden burst had a prosaic beginning : Bertoia was simply trying to find a way of making metal wires spring from a core, like petals from a flower or rays from the sun. In other pieces Bertoia clusters metal rods that stand straight up like bronze-colored grass and, when touched, resound like tiny organ pipes. In these the secret of Bertoia's work comes clear. "In my walks home," says he in his whitewashed garage-studio near his farm in Bally, Pa., "I pass by wheat fields swaying in the breeze...