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TessellationA tessellation is a collection of shapes called tiles that fit together without gaps or overlaps to cover the mathematical plane. The Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher became famous for his tessellations in which the individual tiles are recognizable motif such as birds and fish.
Tesselation began long ago back in ancient Rome, the Roman Empire. In ancient Rome. "tessella" were small squarish tiles that artists covered floors and walls with, to make bigger pictures. Basically, this is also what happens with the colored dots on your computer screen: they're lined up and colored to create a bigger picture. In more modern times Escher can be regarded as the 'Father' tessellations, due to the highly intricate and memorizing tessellation he made. During his life, he became obsessed with filling surfaces with pictures that did not overlap or leave spaces. Aged 68, he stated, "Filling two-dimensional planes He was fascinated by both Math and Art and how they could come together to create such highly integrate aesthetics In 1925 he produced what was really his first tessellation. It was a block print of 'lions' in which the subject interlocked and covered the plane! He was disappointed that people were not impressed. However this did not stop him in 1933 he traveled home and once there began tinkering with the designs. He read a paper by professor F. Haag in which the definitions of the division of the plane were discussed together with drawings and notations. 'Regular divisions of the plane consist of congruent, convex polygons joined together, the arrangement by which the polygons join each other is the same throughout.'This sparked a frenzy of drawing in his notebooks. From here his tessellation art Florsheim. |
Tessellation Assignment
Inspired by the shapes and how they build together seamlessly students will create Portrait Tessellation. Students will use the shapes to build up the portrait. Step one Choose a black and white portrait and paste it into a new letter sized file in Photoshop. Step two find a black and white vector Tessellation. Copy and paste it onto the Photoshop file Step Three using the outline cut and paste at least 30 shapes of the portrait so that it looks a bit broken. Step four Use at least two filters on the pieces that compliment each other Step five Find another Colorful tessellation that is a complimentary color to your background. |
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AssignmentInspired by the shapes and how they build together seamlessly students will create Portrait Tessellation. Students will use the shapes to build up the portrait.
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