TESSELLATIONS
The official M.C. Escher Site
Images of M.C. Escher
Tessellation Creator
3-D Origami Tessellation
The official M.C. Escher Site
Images of M.C. Escher
Tessellation Creator
3-D Origami Tessellation
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BIG IDEA: Students will create a representational tessellation composition in the style of M.C. Escher .
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
- Why might M.C. Escher think like a mathematician?
- What is the relationship between the artist and the mathematician?
- What may have inspired M.C. Escher to create tessellations?
KEY KNOWLEDGE:
- Students will learn about artist M.C. Escher and discover art techniques through math.
- Students will apply line , space and symmetry to their artwork.
- Students will review color theory through the design process of their artwork.
- Students will review mathematical vocabulary: Reflection, rotation, translation, repetition, geometry.
- Math Common Core: Understand that a two-dimensional figure is similar to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations; given two similar two-dimensional figures, describe a sequence that exhibits the similarity between them. (Common Core Standard 8G-4)
DESIGN PROCESS/ GOALS: Credit: Julian Kunstler
1. Create a pattern design based on a tessellation. Start with creating a tessellation shape using the "translation pattern" (see the steps below). Your tessellation should be a recognizable (not abstract) object - animals, birds, insects, fish, etc.
2. Trace your tessellation onto a drawing paper.
3.Draw the details inside each tessellation.
4.Use Prismacolor pencils or watercolors to complete the tessellations. Each shape should be different inside - use different color schemes, designs, details, etc.
5. Apply the coloring technique that would incorporate different shades of a color, color gradations, blending the colors.
Step by step on how to make different tessellations are HERE!
MAGNET THEME CONNECTION:
- "We study mathematics for its beauty, its elegance and its capacity to codify the patterns woven into the fabric of the universe. Within its figures and formulas, the secular perceive order and the religious catch distant echoes of the language of creation. Mathematics achieves the sublime; sometimes, as with tessellations, it rises to art." - Julie Dawson How tessellations work
- "Scientists and mathematicians have found more in common with Escher than other artists. This makes sense, considering that Escher's works are firmly rooted in mathematics, particularly in principles of symmetry and geometry. " - Stephanie Watson More about M.C. Escher