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Creating Tessellating Art
• Artwork inspired by M.C. Escher
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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.
Tessellations
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* He was born Maurits Cornelis Escher
in 1898, in Leeuwarden, Holland.
M.C. Escher developed the tessellating shape as an art form
*Escher was a graphic artist, who specialized in
woodcuts and lithographs.
* 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.
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Escher Self-portrait
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He was unknown until the 1950’s
* But by 1956 he had given his first important
exhibition, was written up in Time magazine, and acquired a world-wide reputation.
* 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.”
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Alhambra Palace
* The Alhambra is a walled city and fortress
in Granada, Spain. It was built during the last Islamic Dynasty (1238-1492).
* The palace is lavishly decorated with stone
and wood carvings and tile patterns on most of the ceilings, walls, and floors.
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Alhambra CastleAlhambra consists of palacesbuilt by several rulers, each had his own.castle.
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The Alhambra Palace is afamous example ofMoorish architecture.It may be the most well
known Muslim construction. Islamic art does not usuallyuse representations of livingbeings, but usesgeometric patterns,especially symmetric(repeating) patterns.
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The idea behind several of the buildings of Alhambra was to create a Paradise on earth.
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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.
* He was also fascinated with paradox and
"impossible" figures, and developed many intriguing works of art.
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Convex ConcaveLithograph, March 1955
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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
* could be used for a tessellation . Escher used
these basic shapes in his tessellations.
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Sometimes Escher changed the basic shapes
By “distorting” the basic shapes he changed them into animals, birds, andother figures.The effect can beboth startling and beautiful.
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Escher Horses
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Lets make a simple tessellating shape
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Begin with a simple geometric shape - the square
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Change the shape of one side
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Copy this line on the opposite side
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Rotate the line and repeat it on the remaining edges
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Erase the original shape
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Add lines to the inside of the shapes to turn them into pictures.
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Add color to enhance your picture.
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By repeating your shape you create a tessellated picture
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Escher likedwhat he called“metamorphoses,”
where shapeschanged andinteracted witheach other.
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Another example of metamorphosis
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Lets make a simple tessellating shape
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Begin with a simple geometric shape - the square
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Change the shape of one side
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Repeat the line on the opposite side
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Change the shape of the top
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Repeat this line on the bottom
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Erase the square
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Turn shape looking for two hidden animals, flowers, fish,
insects, or birds.
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Draw a line that separates the two hidden shapes you have found.
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Add a few lines that bring out your hidden shapes.
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Separate the two shapes so you can use them one at a time
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Make four versions of each shape, each version with more detail
The most detailed shape can be changed
quite a bit
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Make four versions of each shape with more detail
The most detailed shape can be changed quite a bit
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Color all of one type of shape the same basic color
scheme
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Line up the simplest shape with the most complex along the
bottom
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Line up the next most complex with the next simplest
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Add the next row in the same way
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Completed Tessellation
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Completed Tessellation
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Completed Tessellation
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Completed Tessellation
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If you find Escher too challenging, here are examples of
another type of project for tessellations that you can also do:
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