Introduction to Tesselations

What is a tessellation?
A tessellation is a picture made of the repetition of shapes or objects.


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.
M. C. Escher was born in 1898 in Holland. He had an interest in pen and ink drawing from a young age, and when his art teacher noticed he taught him how to make linocuts, a form of printing which uses carved linoleum. He was so good that he sent some of his works to Roland Holtz, the most prominent graphic designer at the time.
When Escher began failing his school assessments, Holtz told him to become an architect. He enrolled in Haarlem in the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in 1918, where his talent was recognized and he was switched out of nature drawing class so he could spend more time wood cutting.
He became famous with his landscape work while he was living in Italy. His first real tessellation, Lions, did not impress most people. He kept playing with his designs and sketches and began purposely