2. L.O.- Students will learn about the
Tessellations and M.C. Escher!
Do Now: What do you already know about the
Tessellations and M.C. Escher?
3. MauritsCornel
is
Was born in
Leeuwarden, Holland in
1898, created unique and
fascinating work of art that
explore and exhibit a wide
range of mathematical
ideas. When he was still in
school his family wanted
him to follow his fathers
career of archietecture, but
he had poor grades and
really focused on drawing.
This led him to a crareer of
graphic arts. His work
wasn’t noticed until the
1950s, but by 1956 he had
given his first important
exhibition.
4. Tessellation
Is a regular division of the
plane, that is arranged of
closed shapes that completely
cver the plane without
overlapping and without
leaving gaps. The shapes
making it up is a polygon or
similar regular shapes, such
as the square tiles often used
on floors. Esher was fasinated
by every kind of
tessellation, regular and
irregular. He took special
delight which he called
“Metamorphoses”, in which
shapes change and interact
with each other, and
somethimes brake free of the
5. Look at this Tessellation For an
example, you can’t tell which
way it is going!
6. Eshers Art Work!
The regular solids, known as polyhedra, held a
special fascination for Escher. He made them
the subject of many of his works and included
them as secondary elements in many more.
There are only five polyhedra with exactly
similar polygonal faces, and they are called the
Platonic solids: the tetrahedron, with four
triangular faces; the cube, with six square faces;
the octahedron, with eight triangular faces; the
dodecahedron, with twelve pentagonal faces;
and the icosahedron, with twenty triangular
faces. In the woodcut Four Regular
Solids, Escher has intersected all but one of the
Platonic solids in such a way that their
symmetries are aligned, and he has made them
