Escher

• Kunst
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

TESSELATIONS

MATHS <3 ART

Do you:

AGREE or DISAGREE?

Art and maths

Do not go well together

Art and maths

have a lot in common

Art and maths

are opposites of each other

You have to choose:

GREEN: maths 

RED: art

WRITE DOWN QUESTIONS

As many as you can! 

Think: what, why, where, when, who, how etc.

What do you think the video will be about?

What do you think the video will be about?

Watch the video and write 

down the answers to your 6 

questions.  

Do you like Eschers artworks?
Start your answer with:
I do/don't like it because.... (finish the sentence)

Some questions about the video:

TRUE or FALSE!?

In Eschers work biology and art are brought together as one

1. True
2. False

Escher had no formal education he began his life as a graphic artist

1. True
2. false

What is graphic art?

Woodcuts & Lithographs

are printmaking techniques

graphic art = traditional category of fine arts

including any form of visual artistic expression; painting, drawing, photography, printmaking
(usually produced on flat surfaces)

Escher became inspired by the geometric decoration of the Moorish tiles

1. True
2. false

Tessellation is about irregular patterns

1. true
2. false

Tessellations is about symmetry.
Find a symmetrical image!

Symmetry

Visual illusion

Tessellation

www.shodor.org

Share your tessellation!

Eschers early artwork is intuitive 

He is interested in tiles and tessellations his drawings are not very complex

After making contact with mathematicians: 

- Deeper mathematical

- More sophisticated structures

- Interest in dimensions

- Interest in the shape of space

- Infinity

Tekst

What does cosmology have to do with Eschers tessellations? 

Cosmology and tessellations?

Answer:

Modern day cosmologist think that our universe might actually be 'Escher shaped'. Some of his work may have anticipated very deep features of modern cosmology. 

For example his visualisation of space in 'Circle Limit III'.