Inspired by Escher.

Wales, Andrew

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ERIC Number: EJ574481

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1998

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Inspired by Escher.

Wales, Andrew

Arts and Activities, v123 n5 p44-45 Jun 1998

Uses the biography and work of M. C. Escher to introduce a unit on art history. Tells about Escher's influence not only on artists, but also on mathematicians and physicists. Outlines a student project in which students employed one of these themes: impossible geometry, rotating symmetry, or geometry. (DSK)

Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art History, Artists, Biographies, Creative Art, Geometric Constructions, Geometry, Mathematics, Painting (Visual Arts), Sciences, Secondary Education, Spatial Ability, Student Projects, Symmetry, Tessellations

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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