M C ESCHER All M C Escher works

· Maurits Cornelis Escher was born on June 17, 1898 in the Netherlands.

· His father was a civil engineer. · At school he never had good

· At the age of 21 he went to an Art school. · There

· A woodcut is a technique for printing, using a piece of wood. ·

· Then paper you press paper against it.

· When the paper is pulled off of the wood, there is a picture

’Rind’ All M. C. Escher works (c) 2009 The M. C. Escher Company -

Plane-filling Motif with Reptiles All M. C. Escher works (c) 2009 The M. C.

· He is also famous for his lithography. · Lithography is a technique for

· Escher travelled around Europe for many years. · In 1924 he got married

· Escher is most famous for his tessellations. · A tessellation is a picture

All M. C. Escher works (c) 2009 The M. C. Escher Company - the

· He played with architecture, perspective and impossible spaces. ’Relativity’ All M. C. Escher

· Let’s have a look at some videos about his life and work. (Click

· M. C. Escher died in 1972, in the Neatherlands. Have a look at

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M. C. ESCHER All M. C. Escher works (c) 2009 The M. C. Escher Company - the Netherlands. All rights reserved. Used by permission. www. mcescher. com IMMA MONTELLS ZER FEMOSA – SET PUIGVERD DE LLEIDA - ASPA

· Maurits Cornelis Escher was born on June 17, 1898 in the Netherlands.

· His father was a civil engineer. · At school he never had good marks, but he was very good at drawing. · He started his studies in Architecture but he never finished them.

· At the age of 21 he went to an Art school. · There he learnt how to make woodcuts. Can you imagine what a woodcut is? Wood? Cut?

· A woodcut is a technique for printing, using a piece of wood. · An image is carved into the surface of a piece of wood.

· Ink is spread over the cut wood.

· Then paper you press paper against it.

· When the paper is pulled off of the wood, there is a picture on it.

· He is also famous for his lithography. · Lithography is a technique for printing, similar to woodcut, but using a stone or a metal plate. All M. C. Escher works (c) 2009 The M. C. Escher Company - the Netherlands. All rights reserved. Used by permission. www. mcescher. com

· Escher travelled around Europe for many years. · In 1924 he got married and lived in Italy, Rome, for twelve years. He liked Italian landscapes a lot. · In 1922 he travelled to Spain. He visited Granada for the first time. · There he visited the Alhambra. He was very impressed by the Morish (arabic) style, and he copied it in some of his tessellations.

· Escher is most famous for his tessellations. · A tessellation is a picture that fits into itself like a puzzle. · As a result the plane is covered with repetitions of a shape with no overlapping or gaps between the shapes. Tessellation activity

· He played with architecture, perspective and impossible spaces. ’Relativity’ All M. C. Escher works (c) 2009 The M. C. Escher Company - the Netherlands. All rights reserved. Used by permission. www. mcescher. com

· Let’s have a look at some videos about his life and work. (Click on: M. C. Escher at work) All M. C. Escher works (c) 2009 The M. C. Escher Company - the Netherlands. All rights reserved. Used by permission. www. mcescher. com

· M. C. Escher died in 1972, in the Neatherlands. Have a look at the picture gallery in http: //www. mcescher. com/