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Tessellation

Tessellation. “Tessellation” comes from the old Latin word “tessella”, which means “small square” or “tile”. Tessellations. Were created thousands of years ago People from all around the world have been making tessellations for centuries 6000 years ago in Mesopotamia

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Tessellation

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  1. Tessellation “Tessellation” comes from the old Latin word “tessella”, which means “small square” or “tile”.

  2. Tessellations • Were created thousands of years ago • People from all around the world have been making tessellations for centuries • 6000 years ago in Mesopotamia • Designs to decorate floors • Pebbles to clay mosaic tiles

  3. Tessellations • Mosques and castles • La Alhambra= castle built in Granada, Spain, in the 1300’s • Almost every surface of the Alhambra is covered with tessellation designs made from clay mosaic tiles

  4. La Alhambra

  5. Alhambra

  6. North America • Homes of early settlers • Tessellations covering the beds • Reusing fabric, shapes of cloth were pieced and sewn to create quilts

  7. Quilts

  8. M.C. Escher • Maurits Cornelius Escher • “Father of modern tessellation” • Born in the Netherlands • June 17, 1898 Self-Portrait 1920 Lithograph on grey paper

  9. M.C. Escher • Excelled at drawing • Studied architecture • Switched to Decorative Arts, studying drawing and printmaking Hand with Reflecting Sphere (Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror) 1935 ; lithograph

  10. M.C. Escher • Travelled to Italy and Spain • Visited La Alhambra in 1922 • Returned home and began making his own tessellated designs of fish, birds and other objects • His understanding of mathematical ideas helped him create different kinds of tessellations with complex designs

  11. Tessellation from La Alhambra; Granada, Spain

  12. Tessellations by M.C. Escher

  13. http://www.mcescher.com/

  14. M.C. Escher • During his life, he became obsessed with filling a surface (or “plane”) with shapes that did not overlap or leave spaces. Aged 68, he stated, "Filling the plane has become a real mania to which I have become addicted and from which I sometimes find it hard to tear myself away." Retrieved October 17,2008, from http://www.tessellations.org/tess-escher1.htm

  15. Magic Mirror; 1946 lithograph

  16. Drawing Hands; 1948 lithograph

  17. Relativity; 1953 lithograph

  18. Ascending and Descending; 1960, lithograph

  19. M.C. Escher & Tessellation printed from 33 blocks on 6 combined sheets Retrieved from http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/gallery-recogn.htm

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