Quotes by M. C. Escher
What I give form to in
daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.
Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)
By keenly confronting the enigmas that
surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have
made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely
without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in
common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.
Quoted in E Maor, To infinity and beyond (Princeton
1991)
M.
C. Escher Website -- Find out about his life and take a virtual tour of his work.
This is the "official" M. C. Escher site. Be sure to take a look
at his drawings
using symmetry - lots of tessellations.
M.
C. Escher National Gallery of Art. His life and four
"rooms" of his work.
World of
M.C. Escher Gallery This is a commercial site - but has some
nice poster images
Totally
Tessellated! History of mosaic tessellations, mathematics
and science, historical
image gallery and fascinating demonstration
pages for the work of M. C. Escher. Excellent site -- from ThinkQuest.
M.
C. Escher Page from ThinkQuest (student created)-- See Escher's notebook
on different tessellations
Artcyclopedia:
Work by M. C. Escher on the Internet.
Tessellations
- Escher and How to Make Your Own
- information about all aspects of tessellations, from their history
and development to complete galleries of examples by site author and M.C.
Escher. Also included are instructions showing how to design and
produce your own. Site by David Annal, UK.
Tessellation:
Suzanne Alejandre Tessellation tutorial
Make
your own tessellation Drag and rotate geometric shapes.
(See
instructions if you need help)
Interactive
"How to" by Jim McNeill. Jim McNeill has created an
interactive "how to" website for
creating tessellations. See Flash
animation "how to" on Jim's site.
Know
the Artist: Jim McNeill
This demonstration page created by Mrs. J. Decker as an example for
Art Tech living artist research. See many of his tessellations.
Definition
of Tessellation
-
Math Forum
See
student work! Lots to see using different media.
Cool
Math- Tessellations- - a
tessellation is a way to tile a floor (that goes on forever) with shapes
so that there is no overlapping and no gaps.
David Bailey's World of Tessellations
- birds, fish and more - hand drawn tessellations by artist from from Grimsby, England.
Site include many educational essays.
Tessellations
by Marjorie Rice: See her love of nature, drawing, the patterns found
in nature and their mathematical relationships. Click on Tessellations
to see the patterns she used--then click to see her images. Beautiful
work!
Check these Links
Tessellating
Animation Japanese artist Makoto Nakamura has taken tessellation a
step beyond the plane with his awesome animations. See his
tessellated birds fly, his tessellated fish swim, and his tessellated
dancers dance. Next, visit Nakamura's Jigsaw Puzzles reassemble
tessellated cats, pigeons, gorillas and more. (Note: you do not need to
install the language characters to enjoy this site)
More Tessellations links and
Lesson Plans
"Big
Sensation" (Escher) - song by Greg Percy - Songs in the Key of
Art Volume III - have some fun! Sing a song!
Tessellations
by Kang Mei Ling TrackStar Links
Lesson (most links already on this page)
Tessellations
by Peggy Steffens Track Start Links Lesson (most links already on
this page)
Tessellation
Links -- recommended by Math Forum
Here
are some activities you can try-- Written by art teacher Woody Duncan from
Rosedale Middle School, Kansas. Lesson
plan for Tessellations
and another lesson plan for Kaleidocycles.
Some very interesting and colorful
Tessellations were done by Mrs.
Bunki Kramer's middle school students from Los
Cerros Middle School -- Be sure to look at them all! See some more student
tessellation work using Mr. Duncan's lesson on Sharon
Kennedy's Art-Rageous web page.
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