We have finally finished our M.C. Escher-inspired tessellation paintings, and just in time for OGT week! The finished paintings are hanging around the art room and the senior hallway and look terrific, as our projects here at FRHS always do.
We have quite a variety of tessellated animals hanging out in the art room, and very colorful ones at that. Make sure you check out the pictures from the FR high school students, below!
In the pictures, you'll see a large variety of fish and underwater animals, elephants, birds, camels, penguins, turtles, and even a hedgehog or two. My student artists were required to create a mathematical tessellation, inspired by famous artist, M.C. Escher, and were required to use a minimum of three colors per each of their painted animals.
As you may or may not know, I am a avid lover of surfing...the Internet that is, for articles, ideas and inspiration. While researching M.C. Escher before filling my students with his knowledge, I stumbled across a wonderful article on the connections of mathematics and the fine arts, which I will also attach with this posting. The opening paragraph is what struck me as interesting, and why I continued reading the article.
We have quite a variety of tessellated animals hanging out in the art room, and very colorful ones at that. Make sure you check out the pictures from the FR high school students, below!
In the pictures, you'll see a large variety of fish and underwater animals, elephants, birds, camels, penguins, turtles, and even a hedgehog or two. My student artists were required to create a mathematical tessellation, inspired by famous artist, M.C. Escher, and were required to use a minimum of three colors per each of their painted animals.
As you may or may not know, I am a avid lover of surfing...the Internet that is, for articles, ideas and inspiration. While researching M.C. Escher before filling my students with his knowledge, I stumbled across a wonderful article on the connections of mathematics and the fine arts, which I will also attach with this posting. The opening paragraph is what struck me as interesting, and why I continued reading the article.
"Mathematics and art are related endeavors? The view of most people is that art and mathematics could not be more different. One is left brain, the other right brain. One is creative, the other analytical. While this prevailing view is a partial truth, what mathematician has not marveled at the beauty of an elegant proof, and what serious artist has not been aware of the importance of form and composition to a successful art work? Both disciplines are creative endeavors with analytical components that are essential elements of contemporary civilization. Here, we hope to make the case that, like the yin-yang symbol, art and mathematics are really one in two, and two in one."
Math and the Arts.pdf |