“An Analysis for the Works of Escher and their Use in Art Education”

Abstract

In the Basic Art Education course which is a starter course in Fine Art Education;’object-subject’ analysis from nature, dot, line, colour, surface, form (shape) and elements of space are taught in terms of their contents. The aim of this is to analyse objects in a visual perception and then to create compositions via abstraction which is made real from the nature. Mauritz Cornelis Escher, who was a 20th century Dutch painter, graphic and authentic printing artist, took the advantage of mathematics to create a world which he wanted to establish in his works. He transformed his works by analysing objects and figures. In his works titled “Metamorphosis” which means the transformation in the nature, he transformed continuously deformed images into each other without interrupting the system in the plane. Escher created contrast effects with lines and white-black areas he used. While he was working on his figures, he composed regular divisions on the surface without any space between them by creating abstractions in one or more patterns. He treated paradox (contradiction) and infinity as the basic subject in his works and created cyclic paradox. Each work of the artist is shown up as a pattern pointing the basic art elements such as dot, line, surface, form, space. In this study, the use of aforesaid elements in Basic Art Education and their relations with the work through the samples from works of Escher.