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Symmetry in The Drawings of M.C. Escher AWorkingDefinition Symmetry Sym-me-try (symmetries (n. pl.), symmetrical (adj.), symmetrically (adv.) 1. The state of having two halves that are mirror images of each other. 2. Beauty

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Symmetry

in The Drawings of

M.C. Escher

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A
Working
Definition


“I don’t use drugs. My dreams are frightening enough.”

  • M.C. Escher

Sym-me-try (symmetries (n. pl.), symmetrical (adj.), symmetrically (adv.) 1.The state of having two halves that are mirror images

  • f each other.

2.Beauty resulting from a balanced arrangement of parts. Symmetry

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M.C.
Escher
(1898
–
1972)


 Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972), usually referred to as M.C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist.  He was born in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, the youngest son

  • f George Escher and his second wife, Sara Gleichman.

 In 1919, he attended the Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts. He left in 1922, having gained experience in drawing and making woodcuts.  Escher travelled throughout Europe during his lifetime, drawing inspiration for his work from such places as the Italian countryside and the Alhambra, a Moorish castle in Granada, Spain.

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The
Legacy
of
Escher


The M.C. Escher Foundation of Baarn, promotes Escher's work by

  • rganizing exhibitions, publishing

books and producing films about his life and work. The primary institutional collections of

  • riginal works by M.C. Escher are the

Escher Museum, a subsidiary of the Haags Gemeentemuseum in The Hague; the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC); the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa); the Israel Museum (Jerusalem); Huis ten Bosch (Nagasaki, Japan); and the Boston Public Library.

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Journal
Reflection


Before I took Mr. Seigel’s class, I had never heard of M.C. Escher. I never knew that math and art are so related; I mean it makes sense but I never thought about it before. Symmetry Is a really easy idea and it’s all around us in Nature – in reflections on lakes, in certain photographs, in the appearance of

  • ur own bodies. I learned that I can find the

Axis of Symmetry by drawing a line through the image, splitting the viewable frame into two symmetrical, or “mirror” images. Piece

  • f cake!

I never seriously cared about art before but now I can’t wait to take a drawing class.

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The
World
of
Escher


  • Well,
maybe
not
quite,
but
it’s
a
start!ll


Three Websites for even more cool information on M.C. Escher are:

1) http://www.mcescher.com/ a selection of various books on M.C. Escher’s life and work. 2) http://www.worldofescher.com/gallery/ (a great site to explore Escher’s artwork) 3) www.tessellations.org/ (a site that introduces tessellations and how to make your own)