Maurits Cornelis Escher, best known to us as M.C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist. His woodcut, called "Sky and Water," from 1938, is typical of Escher's work. It plays around with the positive and negative spaces in the print, tricking us to focus on just the bird in the sky or the fish in the water. In mathematical terms, his artwork is often called a tessellation, a repetition of tiles that fit together like a puzzle.
Fifth graders worked on original illusions with one image that tessellates together with another image in the negative space. This project was difficult for us to do and definitely called on our creative thinking skills. It is hard enough to solve a problem, even harder to come up with our own puzzle for everyone else to solve! I think our fifth graders lived up to the challenge!
Here are a few examples of their illusions. To see all of our work, check out the 5th grade exhibit page on Artsonia.com.
http://www.artsonia.com/schools/school.asp?id=114839
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| Artwork by Jillian |
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| Artwork by Taylor |
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| Artwork by Evan |
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| Artwork by Annabella |
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| Artwork by Haeun |
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Artwork by Noah
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