M. C. Escher Tessellations

They may be border in thick, Reich frames, and always have a smooth, finished quality to them. Many of his works pay homage to the great artists such as Bosch and Ingres, or the little girls in his works can struck a haunting connection to the nymphs painted by classicist artists. It is this connection to history which again reflects a person's comfort with the known and familiar, and turns it into something confronting by pulling it from its original context.

     Auguste Escoffier was born on October 28, 1846, in the village of Villeneuve-Loubet, France. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Escoffier and his wife Madeleine Civatte. His father was the villages blacksmith, farrier, locksmith, and maker of agricultural tools. Escoffier's childhood dream was to become a sculptor. Unfortunately he was forced to give up that dream at the age of thirteen, just after he celebrated his first Holy Communion Escoffier was told he was going to be a cook.

Beginning in the mid-1930s, Escher’s work turned very pointedly to the style we associate with him today. Some of his most

He was brimming with excitement as he dusted off a blank canvas and set it on a stand. He turned the lights up to their brightest. Carl worked with precision late into the night, listening to music and the rain pattering outside the whole time. He painted a park at sundown. The trees, lamps, and the ground were all standard colors easily perceived by the human eye, but the sky was bursting with multicolored cubes; a fantastical glimpse of Carl’s unique perspective. When he was finished he took a few steps back, scanned his work like any good artist, and finally nodded, pleased with his outrageously colored

He also displays his illustrations to present radial symmetry. In my outlook, circular shapes can sometimes convey a time warp. The notion of circles can stimulate the brain to generate emotion, feeling, and most importantly

Johannes Vermeer (1632 –1675) was born in Delft, Holland in October 1632 into the Calvanist tradition, during the Dutch Golden Age. He was introduced to the world of art, particularly painting, by his father. His father owned a tavern, frequented by artists and dealers and by the time his father died in 1652, the twenty year old Vermeer was left with much debt but also a great enthusiasm for art. Considered too young to be an artist by the Dutch Guild, he would need another six years apprenticeship to one or more masters.

Meaning, he took ideas from well-known artworks and included similar themes and the same aspects of distortion and fragmentation into his own.

Demsteader was born in Manchester, England in 1963 to Harold Demsteader and an unknown mother. At a very young age he began to work alongside his father in the family butcher shop. Through this job he gained a vast knowledge of anatomy such as bone and flesh, which would later help him in creating his paintings. When Demsteader hit his teenage years, driven by his love of art, he took two foundation courses, one at Oldham and one at Rochdale college of arts.

Polykleitos had a very profound mathematical background, which laid the foundation for his artistic thinking. He resided by the idea that beauty coincides with harmonious numerical ratios (eventually developing canon). By his reasoning, a perfect statue would be one constructed according to an all-encompassing mathematical formula. A definitively “successful” statue resulted from these precise applications of abstract principles.

Mosaic crafting is a method developed in the Hellenistic period and can date as early as second century BC. It is made from multiple steps that require lots of skills and experience: First, every mosaic starts from a solid foundation. It is known as the statumen, created with large pieces of bricks and pottery. The second layer, or rudus, a mixture of rubble and lime, is beaten solid to a thickness of nine inches. After that nucleus is created with a mix of lime and small pieces of brick. Then the setting bed for tesserae is applied, which is an even finer layer of mortar. After the base is built, the artist would mark the area on the setting bed, then place the tesserae. Finally, the surface of the mosaic is leveled by grinding the tesserae

This depth or distance that the beholder of the eye misses as he/she analyzes the action of the 2-dimensional portrait is what’s called the painter’s space. In reality, one of the greatest abilities one’s eyes have is being able to determine depth and distance; small objects are at a far distance and bigger

The “point and line to plane” (Kandinsky 1979:6) is the painting element, such as the letters that make up the word, different combinations will have different effects. As Kandinsky (1979:12) has demonstrated, that point, line and plane is the basic building material of the artwork itself, and that in every different art the elements of art are certainly different. However, it is necessary to first distinguish the basic elements from the other elements, no artwork does not have these artistic elements. Therefore, the common feature between Wassily Kandinsky’s paintings and Guan Zhong Wu’s paintings are point, line

Matisse was influenced by Cézanne's method of analyzing and pulling apart his subject matter. Like Paul Cézanne, Matisse believed that everything could be broken down into simple shapes and painted that way (Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre, n.d.). In Bonheur de Vivre the broken down figures accurately represent the human form and living scenery. The figures in The Large Bathers emit a feeling of calm while the scene depicted in Bonheur de Vivre is a place full of life and love and freedom. Unlike the paintings by Cézanne, Matisse's work does not depict forms that recede in the background and diminish in scale. In Bonheur de Vivre, the scale of the figures in the foreground and the middle ground is badly skewed (Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre, n.d). Matisse brought exploration of vision through space by incorporating shifting perspectives. As a result, the viewer relates differently to the painting and is required to "enter" the scene. Matisse's painting is perhaps the first canvas to actually further the elder master’s ideas.

Artworks are those that use natural tools in an aesthetically pleasing way, to express some deep meanings desired by the artist, for which this art is found. These works can be analyzed by looking at a variety of aspects individually and these elements are often called elements They are very useful for criticizing or understanding any artwork as a whole. The materials used by the artist creating the artwork in the documentary "Mystery Masterpiece", the shape of the work is the shape of which it is, including its size or its volumetric perception, and the artwork has three dimensions; the depth as well as the width and height, the three-dimensional form is the basis of sculpture, yet the two-dimensional artwork can achieve the illusion of the

Leonhard Paul Euler was born on April 15th, 1707 in Basel, Switzerland and died on November18th, 1783 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Even from a young age, Euler was discovered by many, including his father (Paulus) and instructor (Johann I Bernoulli), to be extraordinarily proficient in mathematics. When he was just 15 years of age, Euler concluded his studies at the University of Basel. Euler wrote a prize winning paper explaining the best organization of masts on a sailing ship at 19 years old. The book was entitled Meditationes super problemate nautico… and the award he received was from the Academy of Sciences in Paris. In 1727, he submitted a dissertation regarding sound (Dissertatio physica de sono) in