Artwork inspired by MC Escher Creating Tessellating Artwork Tessellations are arrangement of shapes that cover the picture without overlapping and without leaving spaces Typically the shapes making up a tessellation are simple similar regular shapes such as the ID: 579149
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Creating Tessellating Art
Artwork inspired by M.C. Escher
Creating Tessellating ArtworkSlide2
Tessellations are arrangement of shapes that cover the picture
without overlapping
and
without leaving spaces
.
Typically, the shapes making up a tessellation are simple similar regular shapes, such as the
square
.
TessellationsSlide3
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He was born
Maurits Cornelis Escherin 1898, in Leeuwarden, Holland.
M.C. Escher developed the tessellating shape as an art form
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Escher was a
graphic artist
, who specialized in woodcuts and lithographs.
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His father wanted him to be an architect, but
bad grades in school and a love of drawing and design led him to a career in the graphic arts.Slide4
Escher Self-portrait
Escher Self-portraitSlide5
He was unknown until the 1950’s
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But by 1956 he had given his first important exhibition, was written up in Time magazine, and acquired a world-wide reputation.
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Among his greatest admirers were mathematicians, who recognized his work as
pictures of mathematical ideas
. This was amazing because he had no formal math training.
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His interest began in 1936, when he traveled to Spain and saw the tile patterns used in the Alhambra.
Escher saw tile patterns that gave him ideas for his art work
He spent many days sketching these tile patterns, and later claimed that this “was the richest source of inspiration that I have ever tapped.”Slide7
Alhambra Palace
* The Alhambra is a walled city and fortress in Granada, Spain. It was built during the last Islamic Dynasty (1238-1492).
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The palace is lavishly decorated with stone and wood carvings and
tile patterns
on most of the ceilings, walls, and floors.Slide8
Alhambra Castle
Alhambra consists of palaces
built by several rulers, each had
his own.castle.Slide9
The
Alhambra Palace is afamous example of
Moorish architecture.It may be the most wellknown Muslim construction.
Islamic art
does not usually
use representations of living
beings, but uses
geometric patterns
,
especially symmetric
(repeating) patterns.Slide10
The idea behind several of the buildings of Alhambra was to create a Paradise on earth.Slide11
Escher used the geometry in his art that he saw at Alhambra
* As his work developed, he drew great inspiration from mathematical ideas he read about, often working directly from geometric shapes.
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He was also fascinated with
paradox
and "impossible" figures, and developed many intriguing works of art. Slide12
Convex Concave
Lithograph, March 1955Slide13
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In 1957 he wrote an essay on tessellations. Mathematicians, had shown that only theregular polygons,
Escher was fascinated by every kind of tessellation
triangle, square, and hexagon
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could be used for a tessellation . Escher used these
basic shapes
in his
tessellations.Slide14
Sometimes Escher changed the basic shapes
By “distorting” the basic shapes he changed them into animals,
birds,
and
other figures.
The effect can be
both startling and beautiful
.
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Escher HorsesSlide16
Lets make a simple tessellating shape
Lets make
a simple
Tessellating
shapeSlide17
Begin with a simple geometric shape - the squareSlide18
Change the shape of one sideSlide19
Copy this line on the opposite sideSlide20
Rotate the line and repeat it on the remaining edgesSlide21
Erase the original shapeSlide22
Add lines to the inside of the shapes to turn them into pictures.Slide23
Add color to enhance your picture.Slide24
By repeating your shape you create a tessellated pictureSlide25
.
Escher liked
what he called
“metamorphoses
,”
where shapes
changed and
interacted with
each other.Slide26
Another example of metamorphosisSlide27
Lets make a simple tessellating shape
Lets make
a metamorphasis
TessellationSlide28
Begin with a simple geometric shape - the squareSlide29
Change the shape of one sideSlide30
Repeat the line on the opposite sideSlide31
Change the shape of the topSlide32
Repeat this line on the bottomSlide33
Erase the squareSlide34
Turn shape looking for two hidden animals, flowers, fish, insects, or birds.Slide35
Draw a line that separates the two hidden shapes you have found.Slide36
Add a few lines that bring out your hidden shapes.Slide37
Separate the two shapes so you can use them one at a timeSlide38
Make four versions of each shape, each version with more detail
The most detailed shape can be changed quite a bitSlide39
Make four versions of each shape with more detail
The most detailed shape can be changed quite a bitSlide40
Color all of one type of shape the same basic color schemeSlide41
Line up the simplest shape with the most complex along the bottomSlide42
Line up the next most complex with the next simplestSlide43
Add the next row in the same waySlide44
Completed TessellationSlide45
Completed TessellationSlide46
Completed Tessellation