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Tessellations
Ms. Blaylock
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What are Tessellations?
The word 'tessera'in Latin means asmall stone cube.
They were used to makeup 'tessellata' - the mosaicpictures forming oors inRoman buildings
Tessellations refers topictures or tiles, mostly inthe form of animals andother life forms. t co!ersthe surface of a
composition iwithouto!erla in or lea!in
A Roman foormosaic
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Tessellationsin!ol!e using ashapeor group
of shapes, whichare arranged ona composition tocreate pattern
and repetition.
Transformationsby
M " #scher
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Henri Matisse uses a lot of pattern
Patterns areeverywhere, but
not all patterns
are tessellations.
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$igerian %dire clothusing a blue dye and
starch paste.
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M. ". #scher
Self-Portrait
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M. ". #scher
#scher was born in&eeuwarden in ollandon (une )*th, )++.
Referred to by his initialswhich stand for Maurits,"ornelis.
oungest of brothers.
The family mo!ed to%rnhem where he grewup and went to highschool.
'/elf 0ortrait in "hair' - )12
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M. C. E cher: Te ellation
Ma ter
#scher produced '+eads' in )11 - a hintof things to come.
His inspiration
#scher took a boat tripto /pain and went to the
Alhambra, ane3tra!agant palace fullof pattern.
There, he copied manyof the tiling patterns.
'+ eads' - )11
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%lhambra "astle%lhambra consists of palacesbuilt by se!eral rulers, each h
his own castle.
4ne of the most wellknown e3ample of Muslim
architecture.
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The %lhambra 0alace isa
famous e3ample ofMoorish architecture.
slamic art doesnot usually userepresentations of
people, but usesgeometricpatterns.
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The idea behind se!eral of the buildings of%lhambra was to create a 0aradise on earth.
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#scher copiedmany of the
designs he saw a%lhambra,adding his ownair
M. C. Escher 4 Motifs
1950
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5esign for 6ood ntarsia 0anel for&eiden Town all, )2
Tessellation
transitions
by M. ".
#scher
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Realism 7 Tessellations"ombined
/ometimes,#scher wouldcombine
realism andtessellations.
Reptilesis ane3ample of
thiscombination.
'Reptiles' - )8
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Metamorphosis , )8*
by M. ". #scher
Realism 7 Tessellation "ombined
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"ycle, )8+
by M. ". #scher
Realism 7
Tessellation"ombined
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5ay and $ight, )8+
by M. ". #scher
Realism 7 Tessellation "ombined
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#scher9s &ast Tessellation
is last tessellationwas a solution to apu::le sent to him
by Roger 0enrose,the mathematician.#scher sol!ed itand, true to form,
changed theangular woodblocks into rounded'ghosts'.
0enrose ';hosts' - )*)
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ow do you create a successfultessellation
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