Discovering Geometry

Inspiration is needed in

geometry, just as much as in

poetry. - Alksandr

Pushkin

Geometry in Nature

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Native American

Roman 12th Century

Turkish 16th Century Egyptian 15th Century

Islamic

Senegalese

World Culture Geometric Design

THE ARTS

Jhane Barnes

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Visual Arts

Escher

Durer

Cultures - Islamic

Architecture

Poetry

Tiger! Tiger! Burning

bright

In the forests of the night

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

-William Blake

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The beautiful has its place in mathematics for here are the triumphs of the creative imagination. - W. K. White

Escher makes us question reality.

How can a mirror tilted upward reflect a street seen through a window on the opposite wall?

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Geometric Art

• The pure mathematical visual delight of lines, curves and surfaces.

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M.C. Escher 1898-1972

The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.

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Though this print appears to be quite realistic, it represents an impossible structure. While this imaginary construction exists on paper,the lithograph Waterfall reminds us that nothing is really as it seems.

Escher’s brain-teasing prints use interlocking shapes, transforming creatures, and impossible architectures to challenge the viewer's perceptions of reality.

Are you really sure that afloor can't also be a ceiling? - M. C. Escher

 EuripedesMighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

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New Directions in Islamic Art

Chapter O Objectives

• Discover geometry in nature, art and world cultures

• Discover the characteristics of reflectional and rotational symmetry

• Develop observational and visual thinking skills

• Create a variety of designs with compass and straightedge

• Encounter tesselations

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