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Albany Museum of Art

Tessellations

4/6/2020

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Happy Monday Friends!

Have you ever heard of tessellations? Thats a pretty cool word! 

It has a pretty simple meaning: A pattern made with polygons (a shape with three or more sides)  that completely fills a space with no gaps, spaces or overlaps. Tessellations are all around us, like in floor tile and artwork. Check out this drawing by artist M.C.
 Escher. What do you notice about it? This Dutch artist  is known for creating unusual views of everyday objects and settings, and for his use of ​tessellations. 
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Maurits Cornelis Escher was born in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, on June 17, 1898. He went to a school for Architecture and Decorative Arts, where he learned how to draw and use design along with math! When he finished school, he traveled to many counties across Europe. When he visited cathedrals and grand buildings in southern Spain, he noticed something very interesting to him. Many of the decorative tiles there were used to make repeating patterns. He was so inspired by this that he  began to included many such patterns in his own works of art!
 

​Escher’s works draw interest from many different people, such as art lovers, mathematicians and even psychologists. His repeating patterns illustrate a mathematical idea called tessellation. Remember that cool word? This artist used patterns of shapes that cover an area so that there are no gaps and no overlaps. Psychologists--doctors who study the mind and how we think--are interested in his drawings because the illusions in the works help them study how humans perceive, or view, the world.

More works by Escher
Need more visual help?

Let's make our own tessellation's!

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Here's what you will need:'
 
• Index card 3" x 5"
• Ruler
• Scissors
• Blank paper
• Pencil
• Transparent tape
• Colored markers or pens

STEP ONE
Cut an index card in half, creating a 2.5" x 3" rectangle.
Find the area of the rectangle (length x width) (2.5 x 3)
Draw a line between two corners on one of the long sides of the rectangle. Your line can be squiggly or straight but it has to connect two corners that share one side of the rectangle. 

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STEP TWO
Cut along the line you drew. Take the piece you cut off and slide it straight across to the opposite long side of the rectangle. Line up the long, straight edges of the two pieces and tape them together. 
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STEP THREE
Now draw another line that connects two adjacent corners on one of the short sides of the shape. Cut along this new line. Take the piece you cut off and slide it straight across to the opposite side of the shape. Line up the straight edges and tape them together.  Write the letter A on one side of the shape and turn it over and write the letter B on the other side. 
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Good job! You now have a shape you can use to make your tessellation's drawing.
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STEP FOUR
Lay your shape anywhere on your clean paper. Carefully trace around it using a pencil (you can go back over it with a marker later). Pick up your shape and make it fit with the shape you traced like a puzzle. Can you figure out where to place the pattern so that your paper will be covered with repetitions of this shape with no overlaps and no gaps?

Try to cover your whole sheet of paper by tracing the pattern, moving it, then tracing it again. If you start with side A facing up do you ever have to turn it over to side B to make your tessellation? If you only have to slide the piece without flipping it over or rotating it, then you are making a translation tessellation. In math, translation means shifting the position of a shape without moving it in any other way.

f you want to flip your shape from side A to side B each time you trace it, it will look like a mirror image of the original shape. A tessellation made with this technique is called a reflection tessellation.
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Time to add a design to your shapes. What do they look like? Could they be birds? Fish? Add some details and colors to your art work! Can you think of two colors that you can use in an alternating pattern?

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Image from Teachkidsart.net

Thank you for learning
with us today!
​
​Have a happy Monday and come back tomorrow!

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