Form (in this context) is described as any three-dimensional object... measured from top to bottom (height), side to side (width), and from back to front (depth).   Form is also defined by light and dark...—      Learn how to turn flat two-dimentional shapes into the illusion of three dimensional forms

Next, we will practice identifying different types of shapes with M.C. Escher.

Day and Night, 1938, woodblock detail by M.C. Escher, located at Hague, Netherlands, the Palacewhite.  Black birds fly over a Dutch landscape.   The white birds fly to the right, through the night.   From this dark sky, black birds emerge, flying to the left into the day.   In a vertical movement, at the point where the birds meet, they gradually transform into the fields that make up the landscape.   As the basis for this metamorphosis, Escher used a tessellation.   This is a motif whose outer lines connect seamlessly on all sides and can be repeated endlessly.   Escher calls tessellation “the richest source of inspiration” he has ever tapped into... Escher in the Palace

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