Day and Night is a woodcut made by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher in 1938.
M.C. Escher's “Day and Night” © 2024 The M.C. Escher Company-The Netherlands. All rights reserved. www.mcescher.com
WS01 - Repeated patterns to print
The Arts, Visual Arts, Years 1 and 2
- Collaborative exploration and response
- Artwork on paper
- Written exploration and response
- Verbal response
- Artwork on bag
Annotations
1. Observes and responds to different patterning examples.
2. Points to projection to show understanding.
Annotations
1. Uses a stamp (visual arts processes) to create a pattern in a recurring theme.
2. Uses different colours and formation to create the planned design.
Annotations
1. Draws and labels elements of artwork.
2. Describes own response.
3. Describes how Tiwi people experience artworks.
Annotations
1
States what own artwork is about.
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2
Describes visual arts processes such as drawing and cutting.
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3
Describes visual motif of crown.
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4
Describes patterning in own words.
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5
Describes the concept of negative space in own words.
83 93 20 40
6
Describes the work of an artist (Escher) and links to own work.
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7
Titles piece of work “Monsters”.
200 218 20 40
Transcript
[Teacher] Hey (student) I love your artwork.
Can you tell me what you were thinking
about when you were making this artwork?
[Student] Monsters.
[Teacher] Yeah? Fantastic.
And what have you done?
Can you show me what you've...
...what you've done to make the monsters,
and tell me about it?
[Student] I drawed eyes and mouths.
[Teacher] Yeah.
What else have you done?
How did you make the shapes
for the monsters?
[Student] We used stamps.
[Teacher] Yep, and tell me what you did
to make the stamps?
[Student] We drawed the shape and cutted it out.
[Teacher] And what's special about your shape?
[Student] It looks like a crown.
[Teacher] It does. But there’s something that’s
even more special than that, isn't there?
What's special about the way that
your shape fits together?
[Teacher] It fits together again,
and again and again.
It's a bit like...
...here, I've got an example here.
Do you remember these?
So what's special about these shapes?
[Student] They have spaces that look like
the exact same shape.
[Teacher] Yeah, so the negative space is the
same as the shape, isn’t it?
[Student] Yeah.
[Teacher] Yeah.
[Teacher] What do we call these special shapes?
[Student] Tessellation.
[Teacher] Yeah. And do you know about any
artists who use tessellations?
Do you remember the artist that
we looked at?
Do you remember the artist that made
this artwork, ‘Day and Night’?
[Teacher] His name was, M.C. Escher.
Now, when you did your artwork,
did you think about any artworks
or anything when you were making it?
What were you thinking about?
[Student] This one.
[Teacher] Yeah, why were you thinking about that one
when you were making your artwork?
[Student] It has spaces that make
it look like this one.
[Teacher] Tell me a bit more.
What does it have? It has spaces that?
[Student] Look like the birds.
[Teacher] Yeah, the negative spaces.
And then what happens
in the composition?
[Student] There’s black birds going this way
and there’s white birds going this way.
[Teacher] And so what were you thinking
when you were making your artwork,
that was similar to what Escher was doing?
[Student] Making spaces.
[Teacher] Yeah.
so this negative space here is
the same as the positive space.
Great.
[Teacher] If you were going
to give your artwork a title,
what would you call your artwork?
So let's think about this one, because
Escher called his, ‘Day and Night’.
What would you call yours?
[Student] Monsters.
[Teacher] Monsters.
Annotations
1. Draws and adds details onto printed tote bag.