1. M. C. ESCHER M. C. ESCHER IMMA MONTELLS ZER FEMOSA – SET PUIGVERD DE LLEIDA - ASPA All M.C. Escher works (c) 2009 The M.C. Escher Company - the Netherlands. All rights reserved. Used by permission. www.mcescher.com

2. Maurits Cornelis Escher was born on June 17, 1898 in the Netherlands. · Maurits Cornelis Escher was born on June 17, 1898 in the Netherlands.

3. · At school he never had good marks, but he was very good at drawing. · His father was a civil engineer. · He started his studies in Architecture but he never finished them.

4. · At the age of 21 he went to an Art school. · There he learnt how to make woodcuts. Can you imagine what a woodcut is? Wood?Cut?

5. · A woodcut is a technique for printing, using a piece of wood. · An image is carved into the surface of a piece of wood.

6. · Ink is spread over the cut wood.

8. · Then paper you press paper against it.

9. · When the paper is pulled off of the wood, there is a picture on it.

10. All M.C. Escher works (c) 2009 The M.C. Escher Company - the Netherlands. All rights reserved. Used by permission. www.mcescher.com ’Rind’

11. All M.C. Escher works (c) 2009 The M.C. Escher Company - the Netherlands. All rights reserved. Used by permission. www.mcescher.com Plane-filling Motif with Reptiles

12. · He is also famous for his lithography. · Lithography is a technique for printing, similar to woodcut, but using a stone or a metal plate. All M.C. Escher works (c) 2009 The M.C. Escher Company - the Netherlands. All rights reserved. Used by permission. www.mcescher.com

13. · In 1922 he travelled to Spain. He visited Granada for the first time. · There he visited the Alhambra. He was very impressed by the Morish (arabic) style, and he copied it in some of his tessellations. · Escher travelled around Europe for many years. · In 1924 he got married and lived in Italy, Rome, for twelve years. He liked Italian landscapes a lot.

14. · Escher is most famous for his tessellations. · A tessellation is a picture that fits into itself like a puzzle. · As a result the plane is covered with repetitions of a shape with no overlapping or gaps between the shapes. Tessellation activity

15. All M.C. Escher works (c) 2009 The M.C. Escher Company - the Netherlands. All rights reserved. Used by permission. www.mcescher.com

16. · He played with architecture, perspective and impossible spaces. All M.C. Escher works (c) 2009 The M.C. Escher Company - the Netherlands. All rights reserved. Used by permission. www.mcescher.com ’Relativity’

17. · Let’s have a look at some videos about his life and work. (Click on: M. C. Escher at work) All M.C. Escher works (c) 2009 The M.C. Escher Company - the Netherlands. All rights reserved. Used by permission. www.mcescher.com

18. · M. C. Escher died in 1972, in the Neatherlands. Have a look at the picture gallery in http://www.mcescher.com/http://www.mcescher.com/