Tesselation HW

1.
What is a tessellation?

Tiles that together make up a picture
2.
Write a couple of paragraphs describing the life and work of M.C. Escher. Pick out important facts that describe who he is, how he worked, and why he is famous.

He is regarded as the father of modern tesselations. He believed in filling the whole page and leaving no white space. He was born in Holland in 1898 on June 17th and was the youngest and had 4 other brothers. He started out doing ink drawings and then his art teacher noticed that he had really good skills and he moved MC on to using wood as his material.

He did the 8 heads in 1922, which was just a preview of the great work to come. Also during that same year he took a trip to Spain and he used a lot of the tile patterns he saw there. He then took a trip to Italy where he met his wife and started a family. He toured the southern coast and that is when he did some of his most famous landscapes.