”I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.” 

-- Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish Artist

Five Elements of Shading

Goggles Starts a New Fashion Trend!

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Tessellations

The word tessellation comes from the Latin Tessella, which was a small Square stone or tile used in ancient Roman mosaics. Tiles and Mosaics are common synonyms for tessellations. A plane tessellation is a pattern made up of one or more shapes, completely covering a surface without any gaps or overlaps.

Some shapes, or polygons, will tessellate and others will not. As for the regular polygons, tessellations can easily be created using squares, equilateral triangles and hexagons. I choose to use the equilateral triangle because of the unique visual arrangements it seems to lend itself to. It seems to both perplex and then amaze first the creator and then the viewer. MC Escher, Pegasus MC Escher, Bulldog VOCABULARY FOR TESSELLATIONS TESSELLATION PLANE (SURFACE) EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE TWO-DIMENSIONAL RHOMBUS TILES SYMMETRY TRANSFORMATION REFLECTION COMPASS HEXAGON CENTER OF ROTATION POLYGON MIRROR IMAGE ROTATION MOSAIC REPETITION VARIETY

Happy Birthday, Walker Evans!

Walker Evans

(born: Nov. 3, 1903 - died: April 10,1975) 

Walker Evans’ influence on photography during the second half of the 20th century was perhaps greater than that of any other figure. His most characteristic pictures show quotidian American life during the second quarter of the century, especially through the description of its vernacular architecture, its outdoor advertising, the beginnings of its automobile culture and its domestic interiors.

(born Nov. 3, 1903, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.—died April 10, 1975, New Haven, Conn.)  He rejected the prevailing highly aestheticized view of artistic photography, of which Alfred Stieglitz was the most visible proponent, and constructed instead an artistic strategy based on the poetic resonance of common but exemplary facts, clearly described. His most characteristic pictures show quotidian American life during the second quarter of the century, especially through the description of its vernacular architecture, its outdoor advertising, the beginnings of its automobile culture, and its domestic interiors. 

To find out more about Walker Evans Click on the link below:
Walker Evans Biography

A Miner''s Home, vicinity Morgantown, West Virginia. 1935

untitled (Barber shop interior, Atlanta, Georgia), March 1936© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art

Shack and Ice Machine, Old Lyme, Connecticut, April 1973. (©Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).