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Title A Study on the Application of Spatial Configuration to Escher’s Oppositive Tessellation
Authors 유정환 ; 이호중
Page pp.40-50
ISSN 12297992
Keywords Escher ; Oppositive ; Tessellation ; Relationship
Abstract This article examined the applicability of spatial configuration to Escher’s works through configurative logics and rules and studied the contrasting relations among the unit elements in Escher’s works and their characteristics and the creative process of the characteristics. As the results of the study on the bases to maintain and create the partial elements revealed as the characteristics, it was shown that Escher’s sequential transformative works demonstrated diverse expressive characteristics as a creative process of inter-complementary contrasting relations based on the independence of the unit elements. It was also shown that the creative process of the unit elements was actualized through the maintenance base of the fixed and absolute characteristic as the logic for the creation and the creation base of the dynamic and relative characteristic. Therefore, it was interpreted that by applying the logics for creation to Escher’s unit elements through the spatial interpretation of the maintenance base and the creation base as well as by configuring the units created in such a way according to the characteristics of Escher’s works, spatial possibility canbe derived out from Escher’s contrasting tessellation works. The process of spatial configuration is the process to make a balance between various conditions, artists own understanding of the space and his/her intention of the space. From this viewpoint, the logics for maintenance base and for creation base seem to have the potentiality as a spatial configuration to consistently meet the given conditions as well as to derive out novelty through the transformation to maintain the fixed and absolute condition (base) and the characteristics of the independent (additional) transformation arising together with the implicit relations among the transformative units.