So he travels, is inspired by what he sees, and it changes his life. The intricate decorative designs of the Alhambra, based on geometrical symmetries featuring interlocking repetitive patterns in the coloured tiles or sculpted into the walls and ceilings, triggered his interest in the mathematics of tessellation and became a powerful influence on his work So this is why he was so into making woodcuts. Furthermore, some of his works are in color, and for 3 colors, you need 3 woodcuts, one for each color, and they have to be separated out from each other from the whole print, making it a quite complex process to do - which again should make you appreciate more how difficult it was to achieve the final result.Įscher attended the Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts, learning drawing and the art of making woodcuts.Ī ha. When you learn that these were done as woodcuts - well I hope you can appreciate how much more difficult it is to carve this out of wood, in reverse, to ink up to print. You might be able to "hear" that a melody, or set of chords, is "more interesting" (even without a trained ear) than something else.īut, when you learn that Escher was using a principle called "Equal Division of the Plane" (tessellation) it brings an extra level of appreciation to it.
You may - may be able to look at it and see that something more complex is going on than just "a drawing". However, it doesn't really help you "appreciate" it. Now, his style is pretty unique, and you can "train your eye" to recognize an Escher vs.
Some of it comes from understanding "how it was made", and "why it was made" and even the biography of who made it.įor example, you may be familiar with this: You'd gain a far better appreciation of music by understanding the CONTEXT in which it appears (or was written, is used, and so on). It doesn't really help you understand the language or the story. This is like training your ear to recognize that a language is French, or Russian, or Mandarin. This is not what's going to help you appreciate music more. Specific Ear training exercises where you sing the notes of chords or melody you improvise before you play them then play to check if you imagined correctly, there are many other exercises. This is why it takes decades for musicians to develop their ears.ġ.Singing anything you learn to play as you learn it and after you learned it, with and without the instrument until you internalize very accurately which means you can sing it first thing in the morning.Ģ.Transcribing or trying to transcribe songs by ear, Vital, again here singing will save you from the difficulty.ģ. When they teach you a scale they present you visual patterns not interval sounds and qualities. Many musicians are still pattern runners after many years.īecause Musicians are taught as first thing to play shapes not sounds. The Human Mind's imaginative Hearing is very weak generally, humans are visual in their mind and this favoritism for visual approach to music inhibits completely the improvement of their ears.
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