MM.C Escher and Geometry Wikispaces.pptVIP

M.C Escher and Geometry By Jasmine Hollerway, Sky Kalfus, and Stephan TK A little background information… M.C. Esher was born in the Netherlands in 1898 dropped out of the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts decided to become an artist spent much of his life traveling though Italy, which became the inspiration for much of his work Parts, Shapes, and Relationships Tessellations Started with basic shapes (triangle, square, hexagon) Altered them to take the form of animals Each change had to be compensated For Example… For Example… For Example… Parts, Shapes, and Relationships Metamorphosis Images Start with two-dimensional tessellation Shift to three dimensions and back Number of visible planes increases and decreases Parts, Shapes, and Relationships Strange Loop images Parts, Shapes, and Relationships Strange Loop images Appear to be elevated Actually on the same plane Physically impossible structures Tools and Methods Used basic geometric shapes in his artwork Repetition Symmetry Size and Quantity For a presentation the tessellations would have had to be a manageable size but it really could have gone on infinitely in size. The metamorphosis images- long and thin, to be read from left to right. Why this is important? Escher’s work shows how art can be enhanced by math, and vice versa Brings depth to mathematics Helps us understand geometry  * * Failed his high school exams * You can see how the triangles in the tessellation on the left were adapted to form the birds on the right. A lot of times he used two different shapes (two different birds) because it is very difficult to create a tessellation with a single image. * When I say each change had to be compensated… He would start with a square, for instance. (new slide) * Then, he might alter it like this…. So for it to work as a tessellation, he would have to do this. (new slide) * You can see how those would fit together. Of course, his shapes actually looked like something… *  * * Okay…ca