Richard's M.C. Escher Style Front Porch
Richard teases us by cleverly combining a whole bunch of M.C.Escher style visual
conundrums to create an impossible front porch. Check out his play on the artist's
famous signature!
Background Information For Creating An M.C. Escher Lesson Plan:
M.C. Escher (1898-1972) was a Dutch graphic artist with a passion for making precise
architectural drawings of "impossible structures." He was the fourth and youngest son
of a civil engineer, and his family hoped he would become an architect. While attending
"The School for Architecture and Decorative Arts" (in Haarlem, Netherlands), M.C. Escher
decided to focus on graphic design instead. In the career that followed, M.C. Escher
made 448 lithographs, woodcuts and engravings. He also designed tapestries, postage
stamps and murals. In all of over 2000 drawings and sketches, M.C. Escher's style
remained remarkably constant. M.C. Escher's art reflected the careful precision and
attention to detail of an engineer.
In addition to impossible structures, M.C. Escher also carefully studied symmetry,
perspective, and periodic tilings. Although M.C. Escher was a poor student and never
did well in arithmetic or algebra lessons, his study of periodic tilings was extremely
careful, creative and insightful. In fact, M.C. Escher's notes (including a notebook
he titled "Regular Division of the Plane with Asymmetric Congruent Polygons") laid a
foundation for the study of crystallography by professional mathematicians. In later
life, M.C. Escher's friendship with mathematician Donald Coxeter proved highly productive.
Together, they pioneered the study of hyperbolic tessellations, with Coxeter
contributing technical descriptions and mathematical proofs, while M.C. Escher drew
the illustrations that made visualizing them possible.
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