In the first works, he chose to split the lizards, interrupting the black line at the points where they overlap. In drawing 101 and in Division and Smaller and Smaller, Escher made the lizards shrink by dividing and halving them. In it, the lizards are repeated one by one, in two different colours. Escher had already shown an interest in tessellation or to use his preferred phrase ‘regular division of the plane’ before his trip to Alhambra in 1922. 101 from September 1956 is an adaptation of drawing no. A possible indication as to how highly Escher rated this is that he chose this in 1959 for the front cover of The Graphic Work of M.C. All these works feature a variant of the third type of lizard.ĭrawing no. Eschers drawing of the most basic forms of tessellation And his demonstration of the ways the plane can be filled by adapting forms by using 3 basic techniques: translation, rotation and glide reflection. In May 1957, he would return to the form again when he produced a variant on the drawing for his book Regular Division of the Plane. In July 1956, Escher worked on Division, in September on a drawing in which the same lizards become ever smaller, and in October he translated this drawing into the woodcut Smaller and smaller. In addition, Escher invented a number of lizard variants that can be found in his notebooks with regular divisions of the plane, but he didn’t use them in prints. This lizard tessellation is made from an hexagon cut in different ways to make each part of the lizard so that at the end the figure ends up matching the. Metamorphosis II and Metamorphosis III both feature variants one and two. Escher, Metamorphosis II, woodcut in black, green and brown, printed from twenty blocks, on three combined sheets, November 1939 – March 1940
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