Today is Escher's birthday

Submitted by jkmrao on
As soon as I wake up (usually at about 5 or 5:30 in the morning), I have the habit of switching on and listening to the NPR (Natl Public Radio, people in India and abroad may listen to this on the internet). There is a segment in it called the Daily Almanac, hosted by the incomparable Garrison Keillor. He, in five minutes, gives the day's significant events in the field of arts and at the end he reads a poem. I heard that today (June 17) is the birthday of the Dutch artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1888 - 1972). Escher is well known for bridging the fields of mathematics and arts. He started with woodcuts and today he perhaps may be considered as the father of the tesselation drawings. However he was drawn into this field after a visit to Alhambra (read my earlier blog). Somebody was inquiring about tesselations recently. The simple answer is - study Escher, again and again. Like the rangOlis, it is the principles of symmetry and packing that attracted me to this field. Here is one to Escher! Here are one or two urls on Escher. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher http://www.mcescher.com/ http://www.mcescher.net/ Regards! - mOhana
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