MC Escher was a Dutch graphic artist He illustrated books designed tapestries postage stamps and murals He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts lithographs and mezzotints which are methods of making a template to stamp or print with ID: 648863
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M.C. Escher1898-1972Born in Leeuwarden, NetherlandsSlide2
M.C. Escher was a Dutch graphic artist. He illustrated books, designed tapestries, postage stamps and murals.
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is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints, which are methods of making a template to “stamp” or print with.
“CASTROVALVA”
Lithograph, February 1930Slide3
“Sky & Water I”, 1938 (Woodcut Tessellation)
Escher’s work features impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations.
A “tessellation” is a repeating design made up of shapes that fit together with no gaps or overlaps to fill a flat space.
Notice, at the left, how the birds and the fish fit together with no overlap where the sky meets the water. If you look at the black and white space, you will see a bird and fish, respectively, as well.Slide4
“Relativity “,
1953 Lithograph
In “Relativity”, Escher drew a piece of architecture that is impossible to construct in real life. Slide5
Watch the reptiles escape from the two dimensional world only to fall back into it again in “Reptiles” (hexagonal tessellation).
See the hands draw themselves in “Drawing Hands” (Lithograph). Slide6
“Hand with Reflecting Sphere”, 1935 LithographSlide7
Who can say one thing that you learned today about M.C. Escher?Slide8
Making Escher TessellationsTake your 3 inch square cutout and number the corners as shown on the diagram. Cut the bottom two corners off and move up to the top. With edges touching but not overlapping, tape in place. The numbers are to stay right side up.
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raw a triangle on the back side, label "H" for head, and move to the right top and tape in place to make a bird shape.
Using the bird as a tracing template, align it with the side of a drawing paper, and trace one stacking column. If you move the bird to the right and interlock the head shapes, you can make another column that interlocks with the first. Continue tracing columns until paper is filled.Trace your pencil lines with a black marker or black sharpie. Color your birds in with crayons or colored pencils.
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