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M.C. Escher: Symmetry Coloring Book

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Pomegranate�s Symmetry coloring book features 22 of M. C. Escher�s symmetry drawings created between 1926/1927 and 1967. Coloring pages are blank on the back so they can be cut out and displayed. Click on the small picture to see an interior page.

Introduction
Born into a family of scientists and engineers, Maurits Cornelis Escher (Dutch, 1898�1972) originally planned to be an architect but became interested in the graphic arts instead. In his youth, he drew what he observed, mostly city scenes and landscapes. But in the 1930s, after making two trips to the Alhambra, a fourteenth-century Moorish palace in Spain, he began focusing on geometric rhythm and exploring different ways of looking at the world. The palace�s decorative tiles inspired in him a fascination with order and symmetry that can be seen in the drawings in this coloring book. If you look closely, you will see each drawing is completely covered by images�there is no �empty� space�and all the images are locked together, repeated in different directions, and only separated by different colors. Can you see how these symmetry drawings�Escher�s visual representations of infinity�could continue on and on outside the borders of each picture?

The twenty-two M. C. Escher symmetry drawings in this coloring book are shown as small pictures on the inside front and back covers. When you color in the line drawings, you might want to copy Escher�s colors, or you might decide to use your own. Maybe you�ll use even more colors than he did!

We�ve left the last page of this book blank so that you can draw and color a picture of your own. Where will you find symmetry in your world?

One forty-eight page 8 1/2 x 11" book with twenty-two images to color. Each illustration is reproduced in a small, color version of the original artwork and as a full-page black line drawing. Published by PomegranateKids®, an imprint of Pomegranate Communications.